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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What characterizes the second phase of a prisoner's mental state?
(a) Depression.
(b) Grief.
(c) Apathy in the face of the horrors of camp life.
(d) Suprise at finding the beauty in camp life.

2. What kind of complex does the author write prisoners suffered from?
(a) A Napoleon complex.
(b) A Marytyr complex.
(c) An Inferiority complex.
(d) A Persecution complex.

3. What job did Frankl do in freezing temperatures out of doors?
(a) He worked in an open-air hospital.
(b) He worked on icky train tracks.
(c) He worked on the roof of the prison director's building.
(d) He worked in the sewage pits.

4. What did the prison car that Frankl took pass?
(a) A beautiful lake.
(b) His old home.
(c) His mother's home.
(d) A beach.

5. How did Frankl earn the favor of "The Murderous Capo"?
(a) He gave him psychological advice.
(b) He applauded him.
(c) He held his hand.
(d) He spoke to him of hope.

Short Answer Questions

1. Were all foremen harsh and cruel?

2. As Frankl and his fellow prisoners watched fellow prisoners, what could they calculate?

3. What does the author attempt to describe in this essay?

4. What are "premium coupons"?

5. What were the exceptions to the "cultural hibernation" in camp?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. Who were termed "Moslems" in camp? What consequences did being called "Moslem" have?

3. How does Frankl categorize the psychological response to such an abnormal situation as life in a concentration camp?

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

5. 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?

6. 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?

7. How does Frankl describe a "delusion of reprieve"?

8. How were prisoners separated when they arrived at Auschwitz?

9. What kind of curiosity does Frankl write that the prisoners had?

10. According to Frankl, what characterizes the prisoners' thinking when they first arrive at camp?

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