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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 offers them tips to get more food at meal time.
(b) He suggests that they never speak around SS officers.
(c) He recommends they shave, to look younger, and that they avoid showing discomfort to appear more fit.
(d) He recommends that they sleep every moment that they get a chance, to be energetic in their work.

2. What job did Frankl do in freezing temperatures out of doors?
(a) He worked in the sewage pits.
(b) He worked in an open-air hospital.
(c) He worked on icky train tracks.
(d) He worked on the roof of the prison director's building.

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

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

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

6. How many mental phases does the author claim that concentration camp prisoners go through?
(a) Ten distinct phases.
(b) Four phases.
(c) Three distinct phases.
(d) Two separate phases.

7. How did Frankl respond to an SS officer who called him a pig, and asked him what his profession was?
(a) He argued that it was none of his business, and then tried to hit him.
(b) He refused to speak.
(c) He told him he was a doctor who did charitable work.
(d) He said he had been a psychiatrist, and understood perfectly what his issues were.

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

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

10. Who narrates this story?
(a) A concentration camp survivor.
(b) A woman who claims to have grown up with Hitler.
(c) A former Nazi.
(d) A woman who hid Jews in her home to save them from the concentration camps.

11. Who does the author claim entertained thoughts of suicide in the concentration camp?
(a) The author notes that nearly all of the prisoners entertained these thoughts.
(b) He notes there was a high suicide rate among the Capos.
(c) The author claims these thoughts were particularly common among men.
(d) The author writes that suicide was most common when it was snowing.

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

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

14. What were the exceptions to the "cultural hibernation" in camp?
(a) Religion and writing.
(b) Art and music.
(c) Politics and religion.
(d) Writing and music.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of outbreak affected the prisoners at the author's camp?

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

3. Were all foremen harsh and cruel?

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

5. What job do those who greet the prisoners as they arrive to the concentration camp do?

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