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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 nature of meaning?
(a) It is found in suffering, like when he was a prisoner.
(b) It is not important because nothing has true meaning.
(c) Love is the true meaning of life.
(d) It does not emerge from existence, but confronting existence.

2. What choice does the author claim that people can control in difficult circumstances?
(a) "People, even in these horrible circumstances, can control the way that they treat others."
(b) "We can all always choose our breathing patterns, which influence our mood, and that influences our actions."
(c) "In any circumstance... man can choose his own reaction, we can all choose to focus on love."
(d) "Man can preserve a vestige of spiritual freedom, or independence of mind..."

3. What role does suffering play in life, according to Frankl?
(a) It is a meaningful part of life.
(b) It is best avoided to the extent possible.
(c) It is a necessary evil from which we can all learn valuable life lessons.
(d) It is a part of life to be worked through to get to a more hopeful future.

4. In logotherapy, how is the search for meaning seen?
(a) As less important than just accepting suffering.
(b) As important, but not necessary.
(c) As a game because there is no meaning.
(d) As a primary motivational force.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Frankl's understanding of individual meaning differ from that of Jean-Paul Sartre?

3. What does Frankl relate about an American diplomat who, after years of psychotherapy, went to logotherapy?

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

5. How important is the idea of individual choice for Frankl?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the importance of suffering for Frankl?

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

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

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

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

7. What is the meaning of love in logotherapy?

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

9. What is "existential frustration" for Frankl?

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

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