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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 is the "delusion of reprieve"?
2. Where does the author claim that most of the extermination took place?
3. Who does the author claim entertained thoughts of suicide in the concentration camp?
4. When the author arrived to the concentration camp, the group of arrivals were separated into two lines. What happened to these two groups?
5. What concentration camp does the author describe traveling to?
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. 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?
3. 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?
4. 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?
5. 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?
6. What does Frankl claim is the difficulty of his attempt at a methodical presentation of the psychology of the prisoner?
7. How does Frankl describe a "delusion of reprieve"?
8. What kind of curiosity does Frankl write that the prisoners had?
9. What were the beatings like in the concentration camp? What does Frankl argue was the worst part of these?
10. How were prisoners separated when they arrived at Auschwitz?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
Frankl writes, "The term 'existential' may be used in three ways: to refer to (1) existence itself, i.e., the specifically human mode of being; (2) the meaning of existence and (3) the striving to find a concrete meaning in personal existence, that is to say, the will to meaning." What does Frankl write about existential frustration and the existential vacuum?
Essay Topic 3
Logotherapy is sometimes called the "Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy." How does Frankl compare his to these other kinds of therapy? How does he describe his patients who have gone through other kinds of therapy?
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