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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What position does the author volunteer for?
(a) He volunteers to move rocks so that he can leave the camp occasionally.
(b) He volunteers to clean up sewage so that a friend can be spared that job.
(c) He volunteers to work as a doctor.
(d) He volunteers to work as a personal secretary so that he can work inside.

2. Why were camp inmates frightened of decisions?
(a) They were frightened of everything.
(b) They worried about the consequences of excercising their own judgement.
(c) They were scared of bringing attention to themselves.
(d) They believed that fate was one's master.

3. 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) 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.

4. What did Frankl think when he saw a group of convicts pass by?
(a) That they had earned their misery while the prisoners had not.
(b) That they enjoyed more well-regulated, happy, secure lives than the prisoners.
(c) That life was unfair because he was in a position below them.
(d) That they deserved worse punishment.

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

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

7. 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 fears that the route out of the camp is too visible.
(c) He decides that he would rather stay with his patients.
(d) He decides that his recent good mood would make the escape too obvious, and asks his friend to escape on his own.

8. 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 that a normal person in an abnormal situation will demonstrate severe stress.
(d) They expect strong reactions.

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

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

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

12. Why did the Capo in the author's working party do him favors?
(a) The author aided him in finding the strongest men to work on his team.
(b) The author was his doctor before he was put in prison.
(c) This Capo favored him because they were from the same hometown.
(d) The author listened to his marital problems and offered psychotherapeutic advice.

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

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

15. Why were dead men thrown on trains transporting prisoners to different concentration camps?
(a) They were there to take up space, so that the prisoners would not have much room.
(b) This was a cruel joke of the SS who wanted to horrify the other riders.
(c) If their number was on the list, their life was considered less important than their number.
(d) They were sent to spread disease to the other prisoners on the train.

Short Answer Questions

1. What possession does the author of this book try to keep after arriving to the concentration camp?

2. As Frankl and his fellow prisoners watched fellow prisoners, what could they calculate?

3. What job did Frankl do in freezing temperatures out of doors?

4. How did prisoners experience beauty?

5. What does the author think about during difficult moments?

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