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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Experiences in a Concentration Camp" (through page 115).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Frankl was scheduled to be transported to another camp, what did the chief doctor do?
(a) Fired Frankl from his job.
(b) Arranged for Frankl to stay.
(c) Forged a letter of introduction.
(d) Created a new position for Frankl in the next camp.

2. What did Frankl learn happened at Auschwitz after he left?
(a) Cannibalism broke out.
(b) Prisoners killed an SS officer.
(c) Frankl's friend broke his leg and was sent to the gas chamber.
(d) There was a fire.

3. How does Frankl's understanding of individual meaning differ from that of Jean-Paul Sartre?
(a) Sartre believes that meaning is collective. Frankl believes it is individual.
(b) Sartre believes there is no meaning. Frankl believes it is crucial to life.
(c) Frankl took the idea from Sartre, and his definition is the same.
(d) For Sartre, it is invented. For Frankl it is found.

4. What job did Frankl do in freezing temperatures out of doors?
(a) He worked on the roof of the prison director's building.
(b) He worked in an open-air hospital.
(c) He worked in the sewage pits.
(d) He worked on icky train tracks.

5. How did Frankl himself realize he was free?
(a) Walking alone in a field, he fell to his knees, recalling his former prayers for freedom.
(b) He returned to work, and was treated with respect by his clients for the first time in years.
(c) He saw a former fellow prisoner, and they realized how different they each looked.
(d) When walking down the street, someone called his name, and he realized that he had his identity back.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Frankl believe that man behaves morally?

2. What did Frankl think when he saw a group of convicts pass by?

3. Why were dead men thrown on trains transporting prisoners to different concentration camps?

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

5. What did Frankl try to reconstruct, that he lost when he arrived to Auschwitz?

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