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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. How were prisoners identified?
2. What were the wishes and desires of prisoners?
3. How is humor characterized in camp life?
4. What does Frankl argue happened in camp to "sensitive people used to a rich intellectual life"?
5. What does the author think about during difficult moments?
Short Essay Questions
1. As a new prisoner in camp, what decision did Frankl believe "marked the culminating point of the first phase of [his] psychological reaction"?
2. In "Experiences in a Concentration Camp," what does Frankl write happened when a train was prepared to transport prisoners?
3. 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?
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. 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?
6. How does Frankl describe a "delusion of reprieve"?
7. What does Frankl write about the sense of humor that developed in the concentration camp?
8. According to Frankl, what characterizes the prisoners' thinking when they first arrive at camp?
9. In the section on "Experiences in a Concentration Camp," Frankl describes a physical condition that affected "nearly all the camp inmates." What was this condition? How did it affect Frankl?
10. What were the beatings like in the concentration camp? What does Frankl argue was the worst part of these?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the difference between Capos and normal prisoners. How were each selected? Does Frankl present a balanced view of the behavior of each group? How does he justify his sympathies with normal prisoners?
Essay Topic 2
Frankl writes of how two men who were contemplating suicide seemed to have lost meaning in their lives. He writes, "In both cases it was a question of getting them to realize that life was still expecting something from them; something in the future was expected of them." How does Frankl understand and describe those who commit suicide? What role does finding the meaning in their lives play for him? Does he sympathize with their despair over their feeling of meaningless and suffering? Does he understand suicide to be a choice, or a simple reaction to unfavorable circumstances? Is this understood as characteristic of neurosis?
Essay Topic 3
Frankl quotes Nietzsche multiple times in this book, writing, "He who has a why to live for can bear any how." How does this quote reflect Frankl's ideas and tone in Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy?
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