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

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

3. 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 listened to his marital problems and offered psychotherapeutic advice.
(c) The author was his doctor before he was put in prison.
(d) This Capo favored him because they were from the same hometown.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the author describe smoking in the concentration camps?

2. How does the author describe the Capos?

3. How were prisoners identified?

4. How did prisoners experience beauty?

5. Why were dead men thrown on trains transporting prisoners to different concentration camps?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to the first section of the text, "Experiences in a Concentration Camp," what advantages did the Capo have over normal prisoners?

2. What were the beatings like in the concentration camp? What does Frankl argue was the worst part of these?

3. 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?

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

5. In the section on "Experiences in a Concentration Camp," Frankl describes a physical condition that affected "nearly all the camp inmates." What was this condition? How did it affect Frankl?

6. According to Frankl, what were the communal showers like? What was the attitude of the prisoners as they entered their first communal shower? Why is this important to Frankl?

7. In the first section of Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy, Frankl writes of his job working to lay tracks for a railway line. What was this job like? Who paid for it?

8. 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?

9. Frankl writes that because of the harsh realities of camp life and the "constant necessity of concentrating on the task of staying alive," some of the prisoners "regressed" to a more primitive form of mental life. How does he see this manifest itself?

10. In the first section of the text, "Experiences in a Concentration Camp," what groups does Frankl identify within the concentration camp? Which group does he focus on? Why?

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