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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. Where does the author of the book travel in a "prison car" with small peepholes?
(a) To Auschwitz.
(b) To Switzerland.
(c) Through Germany.
(d) Past his hometown.

2. After the liberation of the camp, why does the SS take most of the remaining prisoners?
(a) To torture them so that they would not speak of their experiences.
(b) To take them to another camp.
(c) To kill them.
(d) To send them to Switzerland.

3. Frankl writes that suffering is unavoidable, so what matters most in the way that we respond to suffering?
(a) Our understanding of why we have been chosen to suffer.
(b) Our love for one another.
(c) Our attitude.
(d) Our ability to understand our suffering as part of the story of our life.

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

5. What did the camp doctor give his prisoners after they were liberated?
(a) Whiskey.
(b) Magazines.
(c) Cigarettes.
(d) Medicine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the principal question that the author tries to address?

2. What caused former prisoners to feel bitterness?

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

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

5. What choice does the author claim that people can control in difficult circumstances?

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