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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What happens when the author was outside of the camp fences burying dead bodies?
2. How is humor characterized in camp life?
3. How does the author describe the Capos?
4. What kind of outbreak affected the prisoners at the author's camp?
5. How does Frankl describe the "size" of human suffering?
Short Essay Questions
1. According to the first section of the text, "Experiences in a Concentration Camp," what advantages did the Capo have over normal prisoners?
2. In "Experiences in a Concentration Camp," what does Frankl write happened when a train was prepared to transport prisoners?
3. What does Frankl write about the sense of humor that developed in the concentration camp?
4. After the initial mental phase that was characterized by shock, what characterized the second phase that Frankl noticed in his fellow prisoners and in himself?
5. 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?
6. 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?
7. As a new prisoner in camp, what decision did Frankl believe "marked the culminating point of the first phase of [his] psychological reaction"?
8. Who were termed "Moslems" in camp? What consequences did being called "Moslem" have?
9. What does Frankl claim is the difficulty of his attempt at a methodical presentation of the psychology of the prisoner?
10. What kind of curiosity does Frankl write that the prisoners had?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Frankl writes, "Noogenic neuroses do not emerge from conflicts between drives and instincts but rather from conflicts between various values; in other words, from moral conflicts, or, to speak in a more general way, from spiritual problems." What role do Noogenic neuroses play in his theory of logotherapy?
Essay Topic 2
Frankl writes that the Capo and the SS had similar roles, and that they should be judged on a similar psychological basis. What did Frankl think about the psychology of these two groups?
Essay Topic 3
What would Frankl say is the difference between those who are able to overcome life's problems and those who are not? What examples from the concentration camps might he use to illustrate this difference? What role do circumstances play in their survival? What role does their mental outlook take?
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