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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. Why were dead men thrown on trains transporting prisoners to different concentration camps?
(a) This was a cruel joke of the SS who wanted to horrify the other riders.
(b) They were there to take up space, so that the prisoners would not have much room.
(c) They were sent to spread disease to the other prisoners on the train.
(d) If their number was on the list, their life was considered less important than their number.

2. What happens when the author was outside of the camp fences burying dead bodies?
(a) An earthquake destroys much of the camp.
(b) A delegate from the Red Cross arrives to liberate the prisoners.
(c) He falls and breaks his leg.
(d) An SS officer discovers his plot to escape, and comes out to beat him.

3. How did prisoners experience beauty?
(a) They experienced it intensely.
(b) They discussed beautiful art that they had seen outside the camp.
(c) Their lives were too focused on primitive needs to worry about such things.
(d) The SS officers made light of their lack of sensibility when surrounded by beauty in nature.

4. 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.

5. What were the exceptions to the "cultural hibernation" in camp?
(a) Religion and writing.
(b) Writing and music.
(c) Politics and religion.
(d) Art and music.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of outbreak affected the prisoners at the author's camp?

2. What kind of complex does the author write prisoners suffered from?

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

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

5. What is the principal question that the author tries to address?

(see the answer key)

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