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

2. During the time that the author spent in concentration camps, what does he describe as his main work?
(a) Digging and laying tracks for railway lines.
(b) Cleaning the guards' living and work quarters.
(c) Preparing bodies for burial.
(d) Working in the kitchen.

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

4. Under what conditions does Frankl describe the SS beating prisoners?
(a) When they spoke before being spoken to.
(b) At the slightest provocation or for no reason at all.
(c) When they were injurred and unable to work.
(d) At the direction of the SS authorities, prisoners were beaten.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was there a free fight among the prisoners?

2. How does the author describe the Capos?

3. How did Frankl respond to an SS officer who called him a pig, and asked him what his profession was?

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

5. What is the principal question that the author tries to address?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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