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

2. How were prisoners identified?
(a) By name.
(b) By number.
(c) By the name of the place they lived before being captured.
(d) By the room they were assigned.

3. What kind of complex does the author write prisoners suffered from?
(a) A Persecution complex.
(b) An Inferiority complex.
(c) A Napoleon complex.
(d) A Marytyr complex.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the author claim that most of the extermination took place?

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

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

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

5. What was the "most ghastly moment of the twenty-four hours of camp life"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Frankl writes that because of the harsh realities of camp life and the "constant necessity of concentrating on the task of staying alive," some of the prisoners "regressed" to a more primitive form of mental life. How does he see this manifest itself?

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

3. What does Frankl claim is the difficulty of his attempt at a methodical presentation of the psychology of the prisoner?

4. In "Experiences in a Concentration Camp," what does Frankl write happened when a train was prepared to transport prisoners?

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 the text, "Experiences in a Concentration Camp," what groups does Frankl identify within the concentration camp? Which group does he focus on? Why?

7. 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?

8. What kind of curiosity does Frankl write that the prisoners had?

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

10. 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?

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