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Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Experiences in a Concentration Camp" (through page 115).
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How did Frankl earn the favor of "The Murderous Capo"?
(a) He gave him psychological advice.
(b) He applauded him.
(c) He held his hand.
(d) He spoke to him of hope.
2. What happened, according to the author, to the instinct to violence in the prisoners?
(a) They reacted more and more irritably when faced with violence.
(b) It grew as they saw more and more violence.
(c) It decreased as they saw the harm violence made.
(d) It completely disappeared as they learned what being a victim was like.
3. What rule did the author establish for himself in Auschwitz?
(a) He would answer all questions truthfully.
(b) He would work as hard as possible when given a task.
(c) He would try to earn the confidence of everyone he met.
(d) He would always eat his food slowly to enjoy it as much as possible.
4. What does Frankl suggest happens to "self-centeredness" in logotherapy?
(a) It is fostered in order to build confidence.
(b) It is broken up.
(c) It is made evident.
(d) It is used to show the patient how their thought pattern should change.
5. Why does the author, himself a concentration camp survivor, write, "We know: the best of us did not return"?
(a) The author believes this because the prisoners kept themselves alive by brutally and dishonestly fighting for their existence.
(b) The author feels that the most defiant prisoners, those who stood up to the SS officers, were immediately killed.
(c) This quote is taken from a paragraph in which the author writes that the humblest prisoners were the earliest to be killed by the SS officers.
(d) The author claims that this is the case because he deeply misses his family members who died at Auschwitz.
Short Answer Questions
1. As Frankl and his fellow prisoners watched fellow prisoners, what could they calculate?
2. How do psychiatrists expect people to react in abnormal situations?
3. What kind of sickness affected most of the prisoners in 1945?
4. Under what conditions does Frankl describe the SS beating prisoners?
5. In the most difficult moments of our existence, what does Frankl suggest is the salvation of man?
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