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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. Why were camp inmates frightened of decisions?
(a) They worried about the consequences of excercising their own judgement.
(b) They were scared of bringing attention to themselves.
(c) They believed that fate was one's master.
(d) They were frightened of everything.

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

3. When Frankl was scheduled to be transported to another camp, what did the chief doctor do?
(a) Created a new position for Frankl in the next camp.
(b) Fired Frankl from his job.
(c) Forged a letter of introduction.
(d) Arranged for Frankl to stay.

4. Why does the author, after leaving camp, upon seeing an image of prisoners lying on their bunks, argue that these aren't horrible images?
(a) They are images of sick prisoners who could stay in bed all day.
(b) They were images of people who had been spared the gas chambers.
(c) They are images of men that he knew, and all of them survived.
(d) They are images of men from the Capo who had been demoted, and one of them had been in a position to be cruel to the author before this demotion.

5. What does Frankl believe explains the lack of sexual urge in the concentration camp?
(a) Shock.
(b) Stress.
(c) Fear.
(d) Undernourishment.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Under what conditions does Frankl describe the SS beating prisoners?

3. What were the wishes and desires of prisoners?

4. What is the "delusion of reprieve"?

5. What job did Frankl do in freezing temperatures out of doors?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

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. 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?

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

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

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

8. 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?

9. In the first section of the text, "Experiences in a Concentration Camp," what groups does Frankl identify within the concentration camp? Which group does he focus on? Why?

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

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