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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 event does the author attend with the camp's chief officer?
2. Who greets the prisoners upon their arrival at the concentration camp?
3. What does Frankl argue happened in camp to "sensitive people used to a rich intellectual life"?
4. Who is this book most concerned with?
5. Why does the author, himself a concentration camp survivor, write, "We know: the best of us did not return"?
Short Essay Questions
1. What kind of curiosity does Frankl write that the prisoners had?
2. How were prisoners separated when they arrived at Auschwitz?
3. 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?
4. How did the Capo alter the normal reactions of those prisoners assigned to clean latrines?
5. What were the initial conditions of camp life for the prisoners that arrived to Auschwitz with Frankl?
6. How does Frankl categorize the psychological response to such an abnormal situation as life in a concentration camp?
7. 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?
8. Who were termed "Moslems" in camp? What consequences did being called "Moslem" have?
9. According to the first section of the text, "Experiences in a Concentration Camp," what advantages did the Capo have over normal prisoners?
10. How does Frankl describe a "delusion of reprieve"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In the preface to Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy, Dr. Gordon W. Allport writes, "Somewhere beyond the midpoint of the story Dr. Frankkl introduces his own philosophy of logotherapy." Do you believe that the use of Frankl's personal history, and the examples from the time he spent in concentration camps, adds to or takes away from his description of logotherapy? Would you understand logotherapy in the same way without this background?
Essay Topic 2
How does Frankl describe Auschwitz physically? How does this contribute to the overall feeling of the reader, and to his description of the psychology of the prisoners?
Essay Topic 3
Frankl writes of how two men who were contemplating suicide seemed to have lost meaning in their lives. He writes, "In both cases it was a question of getting them to realize that life was still expecting something from them; something in the future was expected of them." How does Frankl understand and describe those who commit suicide? What role does finding the meaning in their lives play for him? Does he sympathize with their despair over their feeling of meaningless and suffering? Does he understand suicide to be a choice, or a simple reaction to unfavorable circumstances? Is this understood as characteristic of neurosis?
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