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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 were the exceptions to the "cultural hibernation" in camp?
2. What does Frankl call "the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire."
3. What characterizes the second phase of a prisoner's mental state?
4. What possession does the author of this book try to keep after arriving to the concentration camp?
5. Why did the Capo in the author's working party do him favors?
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. What were the beatings like in the concentration camp? What does Frankl argue was the worst part of these?
3. 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?
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. According to Frankl, what characterizes the prisoners' thinking when they first arrive at camp?
6. How does Frankl categorize the psychological response to such an abnormal situation as life in a concentration camp?
7. What kind of curiosity does Frankl write that the prisoners had?
8. How did the Capo alter the normal reactions of those prisoners assigned to clean latrines?
9. How did Frankl win the favor of the Capo in his working party? Why was this important for him?
10. Who were termed "Moslems" in camp? What consequences did being called "Moslem" have?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Frankl describes three distinct phases in the mental life of the prisoners he lived with in concentration camps. What characterizes each of these phases? Do you believe that these phases can be seen in any other situations or circumstances?
Essay Topic 2
Frankl writes, "The term 'existential' may be used in three ways: to refer to (1) existence itself, i.e., the specifically human mode of being; (2) the meaning of existence and (3) the striving to find a concrete meaning in personal existence, that is to say, the will to meaning." What does Frankl write about existential frustration and the existential vacuum?
Essay Topic 3
Frankl describes the search for meaning as a human's primary psychological motivation. Do you agree or disagree? Why?
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