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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 kind of outbreak affected the prisoners at the author's camp?
2. How many mental phases does the author claim that concentration camp prisoners go through?
3. How does the author describe the Capos?
4. What concentration camp does the author describe traveling to?
5. When was there a free fight among the prisoners?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. Who were termed "Moslems" in camp? What consequences did being called "Moslem" have?
3. According to the first section of the text, "Experiences in a Concentration Camp," what advantages did the Capo have over normal prisoners?
4. How did Frankl win the favor of the Capo in his working party? Why was this important for him?
5. What kind of curiosity does Frankl write that the prisoners had?
6. What does Frankl write about the sense of humor that developed in the concentration camp?
7. In "Experiences in a Concentration Camp," what does Frankl write happened when a train was prepared to transport prisoners?
8. How did the Capo alter the normal reactions of those prisoners assigned to clean latrines?
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 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?
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 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?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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