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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. How did prisoners experience beauty?
(a) They discussed beautiful art that they had seen outside the camp.
(b) Their lives were too focused on primitive needs to worry about such things.
(c) They experienced it intensely.
(d) The SS officers made light of their lack of sensibility when surrounded by beauty in nature.

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

3. How does Frankl describe the "size" of human suffering?
(a) It can never be as great as it was for prisoners in Auschwitz.
(b) It is only perceptible to the individual.
(c) It is relative.
(d) It is impossible to gauge.

4. What does the author claim helped to detach prisoner's minds from their surroundings?
(a) Intimate relationships with fellow prisoners.
(b) A cold curiosity about what conditions they could survive.
(c) A card game that they invented in their quarters that they looked forward to during the day.
(d) An intense fantasy life.

5. Why did prisoners try to get to the center of the lines that workers formed in the morning?
(a) For the warmth in the center of the group.
(b) They could neither be punished for arriving early nor beaten for arriving late.
(c) To avoid being seen by the SS.
(d) Large blocks of people were always selected from the center, so friends could remain together.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of complex does the author write prisoners suffered from?

2. What does the author claim hurts most about the physical blows from SS officers?

3. What was the main characteristic of the second phase of the prisoner's mental life?

4. Why does the author, himself a concentration camp survivor, write, "We know: the best of us did not return"?

5. As Frankl and his fellow prisoners watched fellow prisoners, what could they calculate?

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