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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was there a free fight among the prisoners?
(a) Before there was a shipment of the feeble and inable to work, when prisoners struggled not to be transported to another site.
(b) Before bed, when men and women competed for a place on a soft bed.
(c) Before work began daily, when prisoners competed to be assigned the first jobs, as these were the least physically demanding.
(d) Before meal time, when prisoners competed for one of the limited number of two-course meals.

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

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

4. What did the prison car that Frankl took pass?
(a) His old home.
(b) A beautiful lake.
(c) His mother's home.
(d) A beach.

5. What was the "most ghastly moment of the twenty-four hours of camp life"?
(a) Waking up at three in the morning to work.
(b) Dinner time, hungry and dealing with small, flavorless food.
(c) Working in the early hours, in the cold.
(d) Skipping lunch.

6. What are "premium coupons"?
(a) These came from the construction firm that hired workers through the prison, and could be used to buy days off work.
(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 were certificates from the SS guards, and were awarded to prisoners who arrived to work before the morning bell rang.

7. What kind of complex does the author write prisoners suffered from?
(a) A Persecution complex.
(b) An Inferiority complex.
(c) A Marytyr complex.
(d) A Napoleon complex.

8. 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) Forged a letter of introduction.
(c) Fired Frankl from his job.
(d) Arranged for Frankl to stay.

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

10. What was the main characteristic of the second phase of the prisoner's mental life?
(a) Love.
(b) Violence.
(c) Apathy.
(d) Anger.

11. What kind of sickness affected most of the prisoners in 1945?
(a) Typhus.
(b) Scarlet Fever.
(c) Herpes.
(d) Measles.

12. What does Frankl argue hurts most about being hit?
(a) The humiliation.
(b) The reprimand that this represents.
(c) Displeasing authority.
(d) The injury upon injury.

13. 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) A cold curiosity about what conditions they could survive.
(c) Intimate relationships with fellow prisoners.
(d) An intense fantasy life.

14. 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 mentally healthy people to have balanced reactions to such situations.
(c) They expect strong reactions.
(d) They expect that a normal person in an abnormal situation will demonstrate severe stress.

15. How did prisoners experience beauty?
(a) Their lives were too focused on primitive needs to worry about such things.
(b) The SS officers made light of their lack of sensibility when surrounded by beauty in nature.
(c) They discussed beautiful art that they had seen outside the camp.
(d) They experienced it intensely.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who narrates this story?

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

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

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 many mental phases does the author claim that concentration camp prisoners go through?

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