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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 kind of statue does Frankl argue should compliment the Statue of Liberty?
(a) A Statue of Meaning.
(b) A Statue of Memory.
(c) A Statue of Responsibility.
(d) A Statue of Hope.

2. What does Frankl relate about an American diplomat who, after years of psychotherapy, went to logotherapy?
(a) The diplomat decided that he no longer needed therapy because his life already was full of meaning.
(b) The diplomat, who was suicidal, and understood this as the result of his difficult infancy, finally learned to focus on the future, and decided not to take his life.
(c) After years of exploring the instinctual roots of a spiritual problem, in logotherapy, his desire to change jobs was taken seriously.
(d) The diplomat learned from logotherapy that his problem was that he understood his job added to the suffering of others, and for that reason he quit.

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

4. Frankl cites a study of students at Johns Hopkins University. What did the students cite as important to them?
(a) Finding meaning.
(b) Making money.
(c) Finding dignity.
(d) Searching for love.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In logotherapy, how is the search for meaning seen?

2. What does Frankl call "existential frustration"?

3. After the liberation of the camp, why does the SS take most of the remaining prisoners?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the meaning of love in logotherapy?

2. What was the third stage of a the prisoner's mental reaction? How does Frankl characterize this?

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

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

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

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

7. How does Frankl see tension?

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

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

10. What is anticipatory anxiety?

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