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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What job do those who greet the prisoners as they arrive to the concentration camp do?
(a) They decide which women are not strong enough to work.
(b) They find prisoners who are willing to lie about their identities.
(c) They separate the sick from the fit.
(d) They take charge of the belongings of the new arrivals.

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

3. Why does the author, himself a concentration camp survivor, write, "We know: the best of us did not return"?
(a) The author claims that this is the case because he deeply misses his family members who died at Auschwitz.
(b) The author believes this because the prisoners kept themselves alive by brutally and dishonestly fighting for their existence.
(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 feels that the most defiant prisoners, those who stood up to the SS officers, were immediately killed.

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

5. Under what conditions does Frankl describe the SS beating prisoners?
(a) At the slightest provocation or for no reason at all.
(b) At the direction of the SS authorities, prisoners were beaten.
(c) When they spoke before being spoken to.
(d) When they were injurred and unable to work.

6. What does Frankl argue hurts most about being hit?
(a) Displeasing authority.
(b) The injury upon injury.
(c) The humiliation.
(d) The reprimand that this represents.

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

8. How did Frankl earn the favor of "The Murderous Capo"?
(a) He spoke to him of hope.
(b) He held his hand.
(c) He gave him psychological advice.
(d) He applauded him.

9. What does the author claim hurts most about the physical blows from SS officers?
(a) The way in which the SS officers did not speak to the prisoners before beating them.
(b) The unfairness of the blows.
(c) The way that the officers hit prisoners where they were already injured.
(d) The use of sticks to hit the prisoners.

10. What does the author attempt to describe in this essay?
(a) The reason that the Nazis rose to power.
(b) The last days of the war.
(c) The experience of living in a concentration camp.
(d) The ways in which living in a concentration camp made prisoners stronger.

11. 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 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.
(b) They are images of sick prisoners who could stay in bed all day.
(c) They were images of people who had been spared the gas chambers.
(d) They are images of men that he knew, and all of them survived.

12. What is the "delusion of reprieve"?
(a) When a psychiatric patient splits their own personality in two, in order to avoid dealing with trauma.
(b) The idea that a condemned person has the illusion just before death that he will be saved.
(c) The idea that many psychiatric patients have, that someone else is responsible for their own well-being.
(d) This is when a person deludes themself into believing that the worst is over, and the best is yet to come.

13. What was the "most ghastly moment of the twenty-four hours of camp life"?
(a) Skipping lunch.
(b) Waking up at three in the morning to work.
(c) Dinner time, hungry and dealing with small, flavorless food.
(d) Working in the early hours, in the cold.

14. How does the author describe the Capos?
(a) "The Capos enjoyed life in the prisons, and took pleasure in the humiliation of others."
(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 were miserable, knowing that they had betrayed their people."

15. How were normal reactions hastened among the workers charged with removing sewage?
(a) The officers in charge would "reward" those who finished their work quickly by forcing them to clean raw sewage, one of the worst jobs at the concentration camp.
(b) The Capo would threaten them if they did not quickly stomp in the sewage to clean the latrines and remove sewage.
(c) The Capo would strike them if they attempted to wipe off the sewage that splashed on their faces.
(d) The officers used loud noises to shock the prisoners as they removed the sewage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What characterizes the second phase of a prisoner's mental state?

2. Was there art in the concentration camp?

3. What were the exceptions to the "cultural hibernation" in camp?

4. What did Frankl learn happened at Auschwitz after he left?

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

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