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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. Where does the author of the book travel in a "prison car" with small peepholes?
(a) To Auschwitz.
(b) Past his hometown.
(c) To Switzerland.
(d) Through Germany.

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

3. What rule did the author establish for himself in Auschwitz?
(a) He would always eat his food slowly to enjoy it as much as possible.
(b) He would try to earn the confidence of everyone he met.
(c) He would work as hard as possible when given a task.
(d) He would answer all questions truthfully.

4. When Frankl was scheduled to be transported to another camp, what did the chief doctor do?
(a) Fired Frankl from his job.
(b) Arranged for Frankl to stay.
(c) Created a new position for Frankl in the next camp.
(d) Forged a letter of introduction.

5. Why did prisoners try to get to the center of the lines that workers formed in the morning?
(a) Large blocks of people were always selected from the center, so friends could remain together.
(b) They could neither be punished for arriving early nor beaten for arriving late.
(c) To avoid being seen by the SS.
(d) For the warmth in the center of the group.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do psychiatrists expect people to react in abnormal situations?

3. What did the prisoners think of indoor work?

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

5. What concentration camp does the author describe traveling to?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Frankl, what were the communal showers like? What was the attitude of the prisoners as they entered their first communal shower? Why is this important to Frankl?

2. As a new prisoner in camp, what decision did Frankl believe "marked the culminating point of the first phase of [his] psychological reaction"?

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

4. Due to the difficult conditions and the need to fight for survival, which prisoners does Frankl claim were most likely to survive life in the concentration camp?

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

6. In the first section of Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy, Frankl writes of his job working to lay tracks for a railway line. What was this job like? Who paid for it?

7. How did the SS respond to changing the list of prisoners who would board transport that would transfer prisoners to another camp or would send them to the gas chambers?

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

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

10. According to the first section of the text, "Experiences in a Concentration Camp," what advantages did the Capo have over normal prisoners?

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