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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 claim that most of the extermination took place?
(a) In small camps.
(b) In camps in northern Europe.
(c) In the big, famous camps.
(d) During mass transport, on the road to the camps.

2. Why did the Capo in the author's working party do him favors?
(a) This Capo favored him because they were from the same hometown.
(b) The author was his doctor before he was put in prison.
(c) The author aided him in finding the strongest men to work on his team.
(d) The author listened to his marital problems and offered psychotherapeutic advice.

3. Was there art in the concentration camp?
(a) Yes, there were many prisoners (including Frankl) who attempted literature.
(b) No, the prisoners were far too depressed to care for art.
(c) Yes, there were gatherings with songs, poems, jokes, and some satire.
(d) No, there was no such thing as the rules prohibiting self-expression were strict.

4. Why was the author not bothered by sitting near lice-infested human corpses?
(a) He was emotionally distanced from death, and saw the humor in the situation.
(b) As a doctor, he knew that if he were infected with lice, he could easily treat himself.
(c) He was able, near these bodies, to spend a few minutes alone.
(d) He was able to distract himself thinking of his love for his wife.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does the author, after leaving camp, upon seeing an image of prisoners lying on their bunks, argue that these aren't horrible images?

3. Who is this book most concerned with?

4. How were normal reactions hastened among the workers charged with removing sewage?

5. What kind of event does the author attend with the camp's chief officer?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

6. What were the initial conditions of camp life for the prisoners that arrived to Auschwitz with Frankl?

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. 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?

9. How did Frankl win the favor of the Capo in his working party? Why was this important for him?

10. 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?

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