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

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

3. What concentration camp does the author describe traveling to?
(a) Auschwitz.
(b) Dachau.
(c) Buchenwald.
(d) Sachsenhausen.

4. 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.

5. What does the author attempt to describe in this essay?
(a) The last days of the war.
(b) The ways in which living in a concentration camp made prisoners stronger.
(c) The reason that the Nazis rose to power.
(d) The experience of living in a concentration camp.

Short Answer Questions

1. How were prisoners identified?

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

3. What does Frankl argue happened in camp to "sensitive people used to a rich intellectual life"?

4. What was the main characteristic of the second phase of the prisoner's mental life?

5. Why were camp inmates frightened of decisions?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. As a new prisoner in camp, what decision did Frankl believe "marked the culminating point of the first phase of [his] psychological reaction"?

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 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?

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

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

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

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

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

10. How did the Capo alter the normal reactions of those prisoners assigned to clean latrines?

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