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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. Was there art in the concentration camp?
(a) Yes, there were gatherings with songs, poems, jokes, and some satire.
(b) No, there was no such thing as the rules prohibiting self-expression were strict.
(c) No, the prisoners were far too depressed to care for art.
(d) Yes, there were many prisoners (including Frankl) who attempted literature.

2. What kind of outbreak affected the prisoners at the author's camp?
(a) Typhus.
(b) Measles.
(c) A strong seasonal flu.
(d) Scarlet Fever.

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

4. As Frankl and his fellow prisoners watched fellow prisoners, what could they calculate?
(a) When they would be sent to the gas chambers.
(b) How badly they had been beaten.
(c) How much they had eaten.
(d) Each other's lifespans.

5. What position does the author volunteer for?
(a) He volunteers to clean up sewage so that a friend can be spared that job.
(b) He volunteers to move rocks so that he can leave the camp occasionally.
(c) He volunteers to work as a personal secretary so that he can work inside.
(d) He volunteers to work as a doctor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the wishes and desires of prisoners?

2. What symptom characterizes the first mental phase of prisoners in concentration camps?

3. Why does the author, after leaving camp, upon seeing an image of prisoners lying on their bunks, argue that these aren't horrible images?

4. What does Frankl believe explains the lack of sexual urge in the concentration camp?

5. What job do those who greet the prisoners as they arrive to the concentration camp do?

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