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

2. Why did the Capo in the author's working party do him favors?
(a) The author listened to his marital problems and offered psychotherapeutic advice.
(b) The author aided him in finding the strongest men to work on his team.
(c) This Capo favored him because they were from the same hometown.
(d) The author was his doctor before he was put in prison.

3. What possession does the author of this book try to keep after arriving to the concentration camp?
(a) A sturdy pair of boots.
(b) A gold tooth.
(c) A scientific manuscript.
(d) A wedding ring.

4. What did Frankl learn happened at Auschwitz after he left?
(a) Prisoners killed an SS officer.
(b) Frankl's friend broke his leg and was sent to the gas chamber.
(c) Cannibalism broke out.
(d) There was a fire.

5. 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 Capo would threaten them if they did not quickly stomp in the sewage to clean the latrines and remove sewage.
(c) 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.
(d) The officers used loud noises to shock the prisoners as they removed the sewage.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the author, after leaving camp, upon seeing an image of prisoners lying on their bunks, argue that these aren't horrible images?

2. Why did prisoners try to get to the center of the lines that workers formed in the morning?

3. What does the author claim hurts most about the physical blows from SS officers?

4. What was the "most ghastly moment of the twenty-four hours of camp life"?

5. What kind of event does the author attend with the camp's chief officer?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

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

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. 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?

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

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

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

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

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