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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does the author, after leaving camp, upon seeing an image of prisoners lying on their bunks, argue that these aren't horrible images?
(a) They are images of men from the Capo who had been demoted, and one of them had been in a position to be cruel to the author before this demotion.
(b) They are images of men that he knew, and all of them survived.
(c) They were images of people who had been spared the gas chambers.
(d) They are images of sick prisoners who could stay in bed all day.

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

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

7. Why did prisoners try to get to the center of the lines that workers formed in the morning?
(a) They could neither be punished for arriving early nor beaten for arriving late.
(b) For the warmth in the center of the group.
(c) Large blocks of people were always selected from the center, so friends could remain together.
(d) To avoid being seen by the SS.

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

9. 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.

10. What is the principal question that the author tries to address?
(a) "Why did so many people follow such an extreme leader?"
(b) "What early childhood trauma may have prompted Hitler to his terrible ideas?"
(c) "How was everyday life in a prison camp reflected in the mind of the average person?"
(d) "Why did the atrocities in the concentration camps go on for so long?"

11. Who greets the prisoners upon their arrival at the concentration camp?
(a) An unidentified man who directs the prisoners to form two separate lines.
(b) The director of the camp.
(c) Cruel SS guards with dogs.
(d) Cheerful prisoners speaking different languages.

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

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

14. Why did Frankl have to leave his shoes unlaced?
(a) He suffered from edema.
(b) His socks, though warm, were the wrong size.
(c) He was given shoes that were too small.
(d) He injured his ankle and had a hidden makeshift cast.

15. What job do those who greet the prisoners as they arrive to the concentration camp do?
(a) They find prisoners who are willing to lie about their identities.
(b) They separate the sick from the fit.
(c) They decide which women are not strong enough to work.
(d) They take charge of the belongings of the new arrivals.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Frankl believe explains the lack of sexual urge in the concentration camp?

4. What did Frankl learn happened at Auschwitz after he left?

5. What were the wishes and desires of prisoners?

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