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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. Who greets the prisoners upon their arrival at the concentration camp?
3. When Frankl was scheduled to be transported to another camp, what did the chief doctor do?
4. What kind of sickness affected most of the prisoners in 1945?
5. As Frankl and his fellow prisoners watched fellow prisoners, what could they calculate?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. 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?
3. How does Frankl categorize the psychological response to such an abnormal situation as life in a concentration camp?
4. 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?
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. What did Frankl call to "run into the wire"? What role did this play in camp life, and in the mental lives of prisoners in camp?
8. According to Frankl, what characterizes the prisoners' thinking when they first arrive at camp?
9. 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?
10. What were the initial conditions of camp life for the prisoners that arrived to Auschwitz with Frankl?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Frankl writes of the danger of "anticipatory anxiety," which he claims is "characteristic of this fear that ... produces precisely that of which the patient is afraid." What examples does Frankl give of this kind of fear? What does he suggest people do to overcome this kind of fear? Do you agree or disagree with Frankl's understanding of fear?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
What informs the principles of logotherapy? Did anything beyond the personal experiences of the author influence this theory? How does Frankl's life experience and example embody or exemplify the principles of logotherapy? What do you see as the strengths and weaknesses of this theory? What do therapists practicing logotherapy do for their patients? What is the aim in logotherapy?
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