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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 is the existential vacuum?
(a) Lack of meaning in life.
(b) A kind of therapy for patients with existential issues.
(c) Lack of love in life.
(d) A process that patients with anxiety problems use to return to normal.

2. What is "hyper-intention"?
(a) When a person is so intent on a goal that they are hyper.
(b) When an excess of intention makes the intended goal impossible.
(c) When an excess of energy creates a lack of meaning.
(d) This term is not used in the book.

3. What happened, according to the author, to the instinct to violence in the prisoners?
(a) It decreased as they saw the harm violence made.
(b) They reacted more and more irritably when faced with violence.
(c) It completely disappeared as they learned what being a victim was like.
(d) It grew as they saw more and more violence.

4. What question does Frankl claim that more and more doctors are confronted with?
(a) Where can I find love?
(b) What is life?
(c) Why do we all die?
(d) How can I act responsibly?

5. What does Frankl relate about an American diplomat who, after years of psychotherapy, went to logotherapy?
(a) The diplomat learned from logotherapy that his problem was that he understood his job added to the suffering of others, and for that reason he quit.
(b) The diplomat, who was suicidal, and understood this as the result of his difficult infancy, finally learned to focus on the future, and decided not to take his life.
(c) The diplomat decided that he no longer needed therapy because his life already was full of meaning.
(d) After years of exploring the instinctual roots of a spiritual problem, in logotherapy, his desire to change jobs was taken seriously.

Short Answer Questions

1. What "deep concern" does Frankl write helped him to survive Auschwitz?

2. In logotherapy, how is the search for meaning seen?

3. What choice does the author claim that people can control in difficult circumstances?

4. What does Frankl write about responsibility?

5. What does Frankl call "existential frustration"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Frankl write is the "crowning" experience for former prisoners?

2. In logotherapy, what is the supra-meaning?

3. What is the "existential vacuum" that Frankl describes?

4. What prompted Frankl to speak to the prisoners about hope? What did he say?

5. What does Frankl observe about sexuality in the concentration camp?

6. What is "existential frustration" for Frankl?

7. How does Frankl describe the character of the prisoners and the guards?

8. What does Frankl write happened to prisoners who lost hope in the future?

9. What is the importance of suffering for Frankl?

10. In what way does Frankl argue that prisoners could retain "the last of the human freedoms?"

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