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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 "deep concern" does Frankl write helped him to survive Auschwitz?
(a) His desire to find his mom.
(b) His desire to rewrite a manuscript.
(c) His desire to get even with the SS.
(d) His desire to serve others.

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

3. What question does Frankl claim that more and more doctors are confronted with?
(a) What is life?
(b) How can I act responsibly?
(c) Why do we all die?
(d) Where can I find love?

4. How does the existential vacuum manifest itself?
(a) Boredom.
(b) A sense of guilt.
(c) Anxiety.
(d) Depression.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Frankl try to reconstruct, that he lost when he arrived to Auschwitz?

3. What does Frankl term supra-meaning?

4. Looking back at the experience of living in a concentration camp, what does Frankl say is the most wonderful feeling?

5. Who does Frankl quote (more than once) as writing: "He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how."

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is the meaning of love in logotherapy?

7. What is anticipatory anxiety?

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

9. How does Frankl see tension?

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

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