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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Frankl visit with the camp's chief doctor?
(a) A spiritual seance.
(b) A conference.
(c) A dinner with the SS.
(d) A meeting.

2. How is humor characterized in camp life?
(a) Black humor is the most common kind of humor in camp.
(b) Prisoners use humor as a weapon in self-preservation.
(c) The SS offices, and occassionally the Capos, are the only people in camp who use humor.
(d) Humor is rarely used.

3. Why does the author decide not to try to escape the concentration camp?
(a) He decides that his recent good mood would make the escape too obvious, and asks his friend to escape on his own.
(b) He fears that the route out of the camp is too visible.
(c) He believes that there is too much space outside the concentration camp, and they will not make it to the next populated town.
(d) He decides that he would rather stay with his patients.

4. What does the author claim helped to detach prisoner's minds from their surroundings?
(a) Intimate relationships with fellow prisoners.
(b) A cold curiosity about what conditions they could survive.
(c) A card game that they invented in their quarters that they looked forward to during the day.
(d) An intense fantasy life.

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

6. Where does the author claim that most of the extermination took place?
(a) In small camps.
(b) In the big, famous camps.
(c) In camps in northern Europe.
(d) During mass transport, on the road to the camps.

7. Who is this book most concerned with?
(a) The Capos -- "prisoners who acted as trustees, having special privileges."
(b) Hitler himself.
(c) The Nazi leadership, and the way in which they made decisions regarding the fate of the concentration camps.
(d) The "great army of unknown and unrecorded victims."

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

9. What are "premium coupons"?
(a) These were certificates from the SS guards, and were awarded to prisoners who arrived to work before the morning bell rang.
(b) Raffle tickets given to the SS guards to award them things previously owned by the prisoners.
(c) These came from the construction firm that hired the workers from the prison, and could be exchanged for cigarettes.
(d) These came from the construction firm that hired workers through the prison, and could be used to buy days off work.

10. What symptom characterizes the first mental phase of prisoners in concentration camps?
(a) Depression.
(b) Fatigue.
(c) Shock.
(d) Grief.

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

12. What did prisoners often discuss when they had a free moment?
(a) Food.
(b) The past.
(c) Fear of death.
(d) Escape.

13. How does the friend of the author, who "smuggled himself" into the author's hut, suggest that the prisoners try to stay alive?
(a) He recommends that they sleep every moment that they get a chance, to be energetic in their work.
(b) He offers them tips to get more food at meal time.
(c) He recommends they shave, to look younger, and that they avoid showing discomfort to appear more fit.
(d) He suggests that they never speak around SS officers.

14. What kind of outbreak affected the prisoners at the author's camp?
(a) Typhus.
(b) A strong seasonal flu.
(c) Measles.
(d) Scarlet Fever.

15. What happens in the story of Death in Teheran?
(a) Death threatens a servant who flees to Teheran, but Teheran is where Death plans to meet him.
(b) A man dies in Teheran, but faces his death bravely, and this inspires the theory of logotherapy.
(c) It is the story of a tragic death by fire in Teheran, which shows that all of us must die in the end.
(d) It is a story of a man who dies in Teheran, because of his own cruelty to his neighbors.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who greets the prisoners upon their arrival at the concentration camp?

2. What kind of event does the author attend with the camp's chief officer?

3. When the author arrived to the concentration camp, the group of arrivals were separated into two lines. What happened to these two groups?

4. What does Frankl argue happened in camp to "sensitive people used to a rich intellectual life"?

5. Why did Frankl have to leave his shoes unlaced?

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