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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 normal reactions hastened among the workers charged with removing sewage?

2. Why did prisoners try to get to the center of the lines that workers formed in the morning?

3. How did Frankl respond to an SS officer who called him a pig, and asked him what his profession was?

4. What characterizes the second phase of a prisoner's mental state?

5. How do psychiatrists expect people to react in abnormal situations?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Frankl win the favor of the Capo in his working party? Why was this important for him?

2. In "Experiences in a Concentration Camp," what does Frankl write happened when a train was prepared to transport prisoners?

3. 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?

4. What does Frankl write about the sense of humor that developed in the concentration camp?

5. 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?

6. 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?

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. How were prisoners separated when they arrived at Auschwitz?

9. How did the Capo alter the normal reactions of those prisoners assigned to clean latrines?

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

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, "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 3

Dr. Gordon W. Allport writes that Frankl "sometimes asks his patients who suffer from a multitude of torments great and small, 'Why do you not commit suicide?'" How does Frankl understand suicide? What does he advise people who feel that they do not have meaning in life, or those who plan on committing suicide because they find they can no longer expect anything from life?

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