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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. How were normal reactions hastened among the workers charged with removing sewage?
(a) The Capo would strike them if they attempted to wipe off the sewage that splashed on their faces.
(b) The officers in charge would "reward" those who finished their work quickly by forcing them to clean raw sewage, one of the worst jobs at the concentration camp.
(c) The Capo would threaten them if they did not quickly stomp in the sewage to clean the latrines and remove sewage.
(d) The officers used loud noises to shock the prisoners as they removed the sewage.

2. What is the "delusion of reprieve"?
(a) The idea that a condemned person has the illusion just before death that he will be saved.
(b) The idea that many psychiatric patients have, that someone else is responsible for their own well-being.
(c) When a psychiatric patient splits their own personality in two, in order to avoid dealing with trauma.
(d) This is when a person deludes themself into believing that the worst is over, and the best is yet to come.

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

4. What were the wishes and desires of prisoners?
(a) The strongest desire was often for more water than was readily available.
(b) Food and comfort.
(c) Intellectual stimulation.
(d) Most of the men wished for intimacy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of complex does the author write prisoners suffered from?

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

3. What does Frankl argue hurts most about being hit?

4. What were the exceptions to the "cultural hibernation" in camp?

5. Why did the Capo in the author's working party do him favors?

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 did Frankl call to "run into the wire"? What role did this play in camp life, and in the mental lives of prisoners in camp?

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. 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?

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

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

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

8. How were prisoners separated when they arrived at Auschwitz?

9. What does Frankl write about the sense of humor that developed in the concentration camp?

10. After the initial mental phase that was characterized by shock, what characterized the second phase that Frankl noticed in his fellow prisoners and in himself?

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