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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 that a normal person in an abnormal situation will demonstrate severe stress.
(b) They expect an abnormal reaction according to the person's degree of normality.
(c) They expect strong reactions.
(d) They expect mentally healthy people to have balanced reactions to such situations.

2. What does Frankl write about those with very difficult circumstances, such as being diagnosed with a terminal illness?
(a) He believes that those who are discreet and do not complain can die with dignity.
(b) He writes that these circumstances create martyrs.
(c) Frankl believes that these circumstances would cause anyone to suffer terribly.
(d) He believes that people can rise above his outward fate.

3. How were normal reactions hastened among the workers charged with removing sewage?
(a) The officers used loud noises to shock the prisoners as they removed the sewage.
(b) The officers in charge would "reward" those who finished their work quickly by forcing them to clean raw sewage, one of the worst jobs at the concentration camp.
(c) The Capo would strike them if they attempted to wipe off the sewage that splashed on their faces.
(d) The Capo would threaten them if they did not quickly stomp in the sewage to clean the latrines and remove sewage.

4. How does the author describe the Capos?
(a) "The Capos were miserable, knowing that they had betrayed their people."
(b) "Many Capos fared better in camp than they had in their entire lives."
(c) "The Capos lived in fear, knowing that they could be stripped of their privileges at any moment."
(d) "The Capos enjoyed life in the prisons, and took pleasure in the humiliation of others."

5. As Frankl and his fellow prisoners watched fellow prisoners, what could they calculate?
(a) How badly they had been beaten.
(b) Each other's lifespans.
(c) How much they had eaten.
(d) When they would be sent to the gas chambers.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Frankl respond to those who claimed they would commit suicide because "they had nothing to expect from life any more"?

2. What happens in the story of Death in Teheran?

3. Why was the author not bothered by sitting near lice-infested human corpses?

4. What does Frankl call "the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire."

5. How does the friend of the author, who "smuggled himself" into the author's hut, suggest that the prisoners try to stay alive?

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