View a FREE sample

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. Looking back at the experience of living in a concentration camp, what does Frankl say is the most wonderful feeling?
(a) That there is nothing left to fear -- except God.
(b) That so many survived.
(c) That there is no returning to camp.
(d) That the SS has been punished.

2. 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 they deserved worse punishment.
(c) That life was unfair because he was in a position below them.
(d) That they enjoyed more well-regulated, happy, secure lives than the prisoners.

3. What did Frankl try to teach a former prisoner who felt that he could trample crops in a field because he had been through so much himself?
(a) "No one has the right to do wrong."
(b) "Morality is measured in small moments."
(c) "By respecting nature, we learn to respect ourselves."
(d) "The way that you behave when nobody is watching speaks loudly of you."

4. Who does the author describe smoking in the concentration camps?
(a) Prison doctors.
(b) The prisoners who worked in the kitchen.
(c) Railway workers.
(d) The Capo and the suicidal.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What characterizes the second phase of a prisoner's mental state?

2. How does Frankl's understanding of individual meaning differ from that of Jean-Paul Sartre?

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

4. What did prisoners often discuss when they had a free moment?

5. How important is the idea of individual choice for Frankl?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 446 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample