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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 write about the moral drive?
(a) When it is not addressed serious, it can have serious consequences.
(b) No such drive can ever exist.
(c) It was ignored by Freud, but Frankl discovered it.
(d) It is an important drive.

2. How important is the idea of individual choice for Frankl?
(a) For Frankl, individual choice can preserve a vestige of spiritual freedom.
(b) Frankl understands individual choice as a myth, since the concentration camps show that we react profoundly by stress.
(c) Frankl believes that man is an accidental product of his environment.
(d) Frankl considers this unimportant and inconsequential to happiness.

3. Who does Frankl quote (more than once) as writing: "He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how."
(a) Nietzche.
(b) Plato.
(c) Christ.
(d) Confucius.

4. What happened when prisoners, who were pressured for years, suddenly released that pressure?
(a) They went mad.
(b) Many enjoyed incredible amounts of exercise and great amounts of energy.
(c) They found they enjoyed their own company much more than the company of those who had never experienced life in a concentration camp.
(d) They ate large amounts and spoke at length.

5. What did the camp doctor give his prisoners after they were liberated?
(a) Whiskey.
(b) Magazines.
(c) Cigarettes.
(d) Medicine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Frankl write about responsibility?

2. What kind of neuroses result from existential frustration?

3. Why does Frankl use the term logotherapy?

4. What does Frankl write was the most depressing feature of life in a concentration camp?

5. Frankl writes that "every age has its own collective neurosis." What does he characterize as the neurosis of his day?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is "existential frustration" for Frankl?

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

3. How does Frankl describe the "will to meaning"?

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

5. What opportunity does Frankl see in camp life?

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

7. What is anticipatory anxiety?

8. What does Frankl argue should supplement the Statue of Liberty and why?

9. What does Frankl claim happened to the inner life of prisoners in concentration camp?

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

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