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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 call "the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire."
(a) Belonging.
(b) Hope.
(c) Love.
(d) Faith.

2. What does the author think about during difficult moments?
(a) His favorite recipe.
(b) His love for his wife.
(c) His favorite poem.
(d) His religion.

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

4. What did Frankl visit with the camp's chief doctor?
(a) A conference.
(b) A dinner with the SS.
(c) A meeting.
(d) A spiritual seance.

5. What happens in the story of Death in Teheran?
(a) A man dies in Teheran, but faces his death bravely, and this inspires the theory of logotherapy.
(b) Death threatens a servant who flees to Teheran, but Teheran is where Death plans to meet him.
(c) It is a story of a man who dies in Teheran, because of his own cruelty to his neighbors.
(d) It is the story of a tragic death by fire in Teheran, which shows that all of us must die in the end.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Frankl describe the "size" of human suffering?

3. Who greets the prisoners upon their arrival at the concentration camp?

4. What symptom characterizes the first mental phase of prisoners in concentration camps?

5. Why was the author not bothered by sitting near lice-infested human corpses?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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 were prisoners separated when they arrived at Auschwitz?

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

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

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

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