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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. How does logotherapy deal with spiritual issues?
(a) As unnecessary because there is no single meaning.
(b) Seriously, in spiritual terms.
(c) As instincts.
(d) Logotherapy does not deal with these issues.

2. What does Frankl argue is the meaning of life?
(a) It varies.
(b) Love.
(c) Service.
(d) Humility.

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

4. How did Frankl himself realize he was free?
(a) He saw a former fellow prisoner, and they realized how different they each looked.
(b) He returned to work, and was treated with respect by his clients for the first time in years.
(c) When walking down the street, someone called his name, and he realized that he had his identity back.
(d) Walking alone in a field, he fell to his knees, recalling his former prayers for freedom.

5. When comparing logotherapy and Freudian psychotherapy, what does Frankl write is the focus of logotherapy?
(a) The interior life.
(b) The past.
(c) Suffering.
(d) The future.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is "hyper-intention"?

2. What is the name of the school of therapy that Frankl stands for?

3. What does Frankl suggest happens to "self-centeredness" in logotherapy?

4. What does Frankl believe makes a person "worthy of his sufferings or not"?

5. How does Frankl write that Freudian psychotherapy deals with spiritual issues?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is anticipatory anxiety?

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

7. What opportunity does Frankl see in camp life?

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

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

10. How did Frankl leave Auschwitz? What happened at the camp after Frankl left Auschwitz?

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