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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 did Frankl visit with the camp's chief doctor?
2. Why does the author, himself a concentration camp survivor, write, "We know: the best of us did not return"?
3. Why did Frankl have to leave his shoes unlaced?
4. What does the author attempt to describe in this essay?
5. What kind of event does the author attend with the camp's chief officer?
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. How does Frankl categorize the psychological response to such an abnormal situation as life in a concentration camp?
3. What kind of curiosity does Frankl write that the prisoners had?
4. 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?
5. What does Frankl write about the sense of humor that developed in the concentration camp?
6. 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?
7. How did the Capo alter the normal reactions of those prisoners assigned to clean latrines?
8. What were the beatings like in the concentration camp? What does Frankl argue was the worst part of these?
9. As a new prisoner in camp, what decision did Frankl believe "marked the culminating point of the first phase of [his] psychological reaction"?
10. In "Experiences in a Concentration Camp," what does Frankl write happened when a train was prepared to transport prisoners?
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 describes the importance for the individual of finding meaning of life. He writes, "Man's search for meaning is a primary force in his life and not a 'secondary rationalization' of instinctual drives." How does he define the meaning of life? How does he suggest that people search for the meaning in their lives? What role does he give to the conditions in life that seem to fully determine behavior?
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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