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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Frankl was sent to another camp after his stay in Auschwitz. Why were the prisoners there pleased?
(a) There was no snow.
(b) The food was good.
(c) The SS was not as cruel.
(d) There were no gas chambers.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the prisoners think of indoor work?

2. How were prisoners identified?

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

4. Why does the author decide not to try to escape the concentration camp?

5. During the time that the author spent in concentration camps, what does he describe as his main work?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of curiosity does Frankl write that the prisoners had?

2. How did the SS respond to changing the list of prisoners who would board transport that would transfer prisoners to another camp or would send them to the gas chambers?

3. How did Frankl win the favor of the Capo in his working party? Why was this important for him?

4. What were the initial conditions of camp life for the prisoners that arrived to Auschwitz with Frankl?

5. How does Frankl categorize the psychological response to such an abnormal situation as life in a concentration camp?

6. What does Frankl claim is the difficulty of his attempt at a methodical presentation of the psychology of the prisoner?

7. In "Experiences in a Concentration Camp," what does Frankl write happened when a train was prepared to transport prisoners?

8. Due to the difficult conditions and the need to fight for survival, which prisoners does Frankl claim were most likely to survive life in the concentration camp?

9. Who were termed "Moslems" in camp? What consequences did being called "Moslem" have?

10. According to Frankl, what characterizes the prisoners' thinking when they first arrive at camp?

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