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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Experiences in a Concentration Camp" (through page 72).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Frankl argue happened in camp to "sensitive people used to a rich intellectual life"?
(a) They had difficulty adapting to not being heard.
(b) They were beaten more harshly.
(c) They fell ill more frequently.
(d) The damage to their inner life was less.

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

4. What did the prison car that Frankl took pass?
(a) A beautiful lake.
(b) His old home.
(c) A beach.
(d) His mother's home.

5. When was there a free fight among the prisoners?
(a) Before there was a shipment of the feeble and inable to work, when prisoners struggled not to be transported to another site.
(b) Before work began daily, when prisoners competed to be assigned the first jobs, as these were the least physically demanding.
(c) Before bed, when men and women competed for a place on a soft bed.
(d) Before meal time, when prisoners competed for one of the limited number of two-course meals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Frankl visit with the camp's chief doctor?

2. What did the prisoners think of indoor work?

3. What did Frankl think when he saw a group of convicts pass by?

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

5. How does the author describe the Capos?

(see the answer key)

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