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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 about what man makes of himself?
(a) That his circumstances lead to it.
(b) That it is the result of his childhood.
(c) That it is the cause of suffering.
(d) That he himself creates it.

2. What happened to the senior block warden who had a dream that he would be free on March thirtieth?
(a) He had another dream on March thirtieth that they would be freed on July third.
(b) He fell ill on March thirty-first and died a month later.
(c) He died on March thirty-first.
(d) He committed suicide a month prior.

3. Before writing the second section of this text, had Frankl described logotherapy in writing?
(a) No.
(b) Yes, in seventeen volumes in German.
(c) Yes, in journals.
(d) Yes, in a published article.

4. What two kinds of people does Frankl say exist?
(a) Strong and weak.
(b) Loving and fearful.
(c) Decent and indecent.
(d) Spiritual and non-spiritual.

5. How does Frankl define the difference between how he and Jean-Paul Sartre define the meaning of our existence?
(a) While Frankl considers meaning important in life, Sartre only considers it interesting, but not essential.
(b) Both agree that meaning is central to life, but Sartre believes it is important in how others see us.
(c) While Frankl argues that the meaning of life is love, Sartre believes that the meaning of life has no connection to others.
(d) For Frankl, we find our meaning, For Sartre, we invent it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What importance does Frankl give to the numbers assigned to prisoners?

2. In contrast to psychoanalysis, what does Frankl claim logotherapy is centered around?

3. What does Frankl term supra-meaning?

4. What did the camp doctor give his prisoners after they were liberated?

5. What does Frankl argue man determines about his life?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is anticipatory anxiety?

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

5. How does Frankl compare his logotherapy to Freud's psychoanalysis?

6. What happened when a patient who had been through psychoanalysis went to logotherapy? What difference between these approaches does Frankl illustrate with this account?

7. What is the meaning of love in logotherapy?

8. What has Frankl termed "noogenic neuroses"?

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

10. What is "existential frustration" for Frankl?

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