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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. As Frankl and his fellow prisoners watched fellow prisoners, what could they calculate?
(a) How much they had eaten.
(b) How badly they had been beaten.
(c) Each other's lifespans.
(d) When they would be sent to the gas chambers.

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

3. How does the author describe the Capos?
(a) "The Capos were miserable, knowing that they had betrayed their people."
(b) "The Capos enjoyed life in the prisons, and took pleasure in the humiliation of others."
(c) "Many Capos fared better in camp than they had in their entire lives."
(d) "The Capos lived in fear, knowing that they could be stripped of their privileges at any moment."

4. What job do those who greet the prisoners as they arrive to the concentration camp do?
(a) They decide which women are not strong enough to work.
(b) They separate the sick from the fit.
(c) They find prisoners who are willing to lie about their identities.
(d) They take charge of the belongings of the new arrivals.

5. What position does the author volunteer for?
(a) He volunteers to move rocks so that he can leave the camp occasionally.
(b) He volunteers to clean up sewage so that a friend can be spared that job.
(c) He volunteers to work as a personal secretary so that he can work inside.
(d) He volunteers to work as a doctor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the wishes and desires of prisoners?

2. What rule did the author establish for himself in Auschwitz?

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

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

5. What characterizes the second phase of a prisoner's mental state?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

7. How does Frankl describe a "delusion of reprieve"?

8. 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?

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

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

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