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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 does Frankl claim is the most important part of suffering?
(a) One's attitude in the face of it.
(b) The way that one maintains peace in the face of hardship.
(c) How one uses it to serve others.
(d) The way that leads to love.

2. What kind of neuroses result from existential frustration?
(a) Noogenic neuroses.
(b) Anxiety neuroses.
(c) Existential neuroses.
(d) Depressive neuroses.

3. What is the author's tone of voice in this, the second section, of the book?
(a) He is now emotionally detached as he remembers his earlier emotional life.
(b) He writes in clinical terms about prisoners mental states, as a doctor, not a former prisoner.
(c) He describes his life before living in the concentration camp in exaggeratedly nostalgic terms.
(d) He uses vulgar language to describe the hatred he still feels for the SS.

4. How did fellow prisoners respond when someone stole potatoes?
(a) When they realized this could be done, they began to organize to steal collectively.
(b) Nobody could figure out who he was.
(c) Rather than turn him in, they chose to be punished.
(d) They turned him in to the SS for extra soup.

5. What does Frankl suggest is the meaning of life?
(a) It is different for each individual.
(b) Love.
(c) Creative work is the purpose of life.
(d) Charitable work or work that advances the common causes of humanity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Frankl cites a study of students at Johns Hopkins University. What did the students cite as important to them?

2. What did Frankl speak to his fellow prisoners about when their morale was low?

3. What does Frankl call "existential frustration"?

4. How does Frankl respond to those who claimed they would commit suicide because "they had nothing to expect from life any more"?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is "existential frustration" for Frankl?

2. How does Frankl see tension?

3. According to Frankl, what allowed the prisoners to be able to predict their deaths?

4. What opportunity does Frankl see in camp life?

5. What is the meaning of love in logotherapy?

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

7. What were some of the negative things that former prisoners had to deal with after their release?

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

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

10. What was the third stage of a the prisoner's mental reaction? How does Frankl characterize this?

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