Man's Search for Meaning Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

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Man's Search for Meaning Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Experiences in a Concentration Camp" (through page 72).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was there a free fight among the prisoners?
(a) Before meal time, when prisoners competed for one of the limited number of two-course meals.
(b) Before work began daily, when prisoners competed to be assigned the first jobs, as these were the least physically demanding.
(c) Before there was a shipment of the feeble and inable to work, when prisoners struggled not to be transported to another site.
(d) Before bed, when men and women competed for a place on a soft bed.

2. What did the prisoners think of indoor work?
(a) It was difficult because of the close watch the SS kept on prisoners inside.
(b) It was the best work in the camp, since it was in a sheltered room.
(c) It was the worst work in the camp because of the constant contact with the SS.
(d) It was the hardest work because it separated the prisoners.

3. What did Frankl visit with the camp's chief doctor?
(a) A conference.
(b) A spiritual seance.
(c) A dinner with the SS.
(d) A meeting.

4. What did Frankl think when he saw a group of convicts pass by?
(a) That they had earned their misery while the prisoners had not.
(b) That life was unfair because he was in a position below them.
(c) That they enjoyed more well-regulated, happy, secure lives than the prisoners.
(d) That they deserved worse punishment.

5. What is the "delusion of reprieve"?
(a) When a psychiatric patient splits their own personality in two, in order to avoid dealing with trauma.
(b) This is when a person deludes themself into believing that the worst is over, and the best is yet to come.
(c) The idea that many psychiatric patients have, that someone else is responsible for their own well-being.
(d) The idea that a condemned person has the illusion just before death that he will be saved.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Frankl earn the favor of "The Murderous Capo"?

2. Who does the author describe smoking in the concentration camps?

3. How does the friend of the author, who "smuggled himself" into the author's hut, suggest that the prisoners try to stay alive?

4. Under what conditions does Frankl describe the SS beating prisoners?

5. How do psychiatrists expect people to react in abnormal situations?

(see the answer key)

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