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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kind of event does the author attend with the camp's chief officer?
(a) A private meal.
(b) A seance.
(c) A meeting where SS officials discuss punishment.
(d) A medical presentation on Measles.

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

4. What happens when the author was outside of the camp fences burying dead bodies?
(a) An earthquake destroys much of the camp.
(b) He falls and breaks his leg.
(c) A delegate from the Red Cross arrives to liberate the prisoners.
(d) An SS officer discovers his plot to escape, and comes out to beat him.

5. How were prisoners identified?
(a) By the name of the place they lived before being captured.
(b) By number.
(c) By name.
(d) By the room they were assigned.

6. What did the prisoners think of indoor work?
(a) It was the best work in the camp, since it was in a sheltered room.
(b) It was difficult because of the close watch the SS kept on prisoners inside.
(c) It was the worst work in the camp because of the constant contact with the SS.
(d) It was the hardest work because it separated the prisoners.

7. What does Frankl call "the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire."
(a) Belonging.
(b) Faith.
(c) Love.
(d) Hope.

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

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

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

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

12. What is the "delusion of reprieve"?
(a) This is when a person deludes themself into believing that the worst is over, and the best is yet to come.
(b) The idea that a condemned person has the illusion just before death that he will be saved.
(c) The idea that many psychiatric patients have, that someone else is responsible for their own well-being.
(d) When a psychiatric patient splits their own personality in two, in order to avoid dealing with trauma.

13. How were the Capos chosen?
(a) They were chosen for their height, as the work that they did required tall men.
(b) They were chosen according to their phyiscal strength.
(c) They were randomly chosen from groups arriving by train daily.
(d) They were the prisoners who were seen as having a suitable character for the job.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What rule did the author establish for himself in Auschwitz?

2. Why does the author, after leaving camp, upon seeing an image of prisoners lying on their bunks, argue that these aren't horrible images?

3. What did Frankl visit with the camp's chief doctor?

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

5. How does the author describe the Capos?

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