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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. How do psychiatrists expect people to react in abnormal situations?
(a) They expect an abnormal reaction according to the person's degree of normality.
(b) They expect strong reactions.
(c) They expect that a normal person in an abnormal situation will demonstrate severe stress.
(d) They expect mentally healthy people to have balanced reactions to such situations.
2. What kind of complex does the author write prisoners suffered from?
(a) A Persecution complex.
(b) A Napoleon complex.
(c) A Marytyr complex.
(d) An Inferiority complex.
3. Why does the author, himself a concentration camp survivor, write, "We know: the best of us did not return"?
(a) This quote is taken from a paragraph in which the author writes that the humblest prisoners were the earliest to be killed by the SS officers.
(b) The author feels that the most defiant prisoners, those who stood up to the SS officers, were immediately killed.
(c) The author claims that this is the case because he deeply misses his family members who died at Auschwitz.
(d) The author believes this because the prisoners kept themselves alive by brutally and dishonestly fighting for their existence.
4. Looking back at the experience of living in a concentration camp, what does Frankl say is the most wonderful feeling?
(a) That there is no returning to camp.
(b) That there is nothing left to fear -- except God.
(c) That the SS has been punished.
(d) That so many survived.
5. What did the camp doctor give his prisoners after they were liberated?
(a) Magazines.
(b) Whiskey.
(c) Cigarettes.
(d) Medicine.
Short Answer Questions
1. What choice does the author claim that people can control in difficult circumstances?
2. What are "premium coupons"?
3. What did the prison car that Frankl took pass?
4. Who does Frankl quote (more than once) as writing: "He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how."
5. What does the author attempt to describe in this essay?
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