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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. For Frankl, what makes life meaningful and purposeful?
(a) Spiritual freedom.
(b) Humanity.
(c) Hope for the future.
(d) Love.

2. When does the third phase of the prisoners' psychology begin?
(a) Once they are no longer afraid.
(b) At liberation.
(c) After all hope is lost.
(d) After depression.

3. What is the author's tone of voice in this, the second section, of the book?
(a) He writes in clinical terms about prisoners mental states, as a doctor, not a former prisoner.
(b) He describes his life before living in the concentration camp in exaggeratedly nostalgic terms.
(c) He is now emotionally detached as he remembers his earlier emotional life.
(d) He uses vulgar language to describe the hatred he still feels for the SS.

4. What are the ways that logotherapy believes meaning in life can be found?
(a) Through deeds, experiencing a value, or suffering.
(b) Through meditation and following an inner voice.
(c) Through art, love, and meditation.
(d) Through love and service.

5. What does Frankl claim is the most important part of suffering?
(a) The way that leads to love.
(b) How one uses it to serve others.
(c) One's attitude in the face of it.
(d) The way that one maintains peace in the face of hardship.

Short Answer Questions

1. Can logotherapy be used with neurotic individuals?

2. Frankl writes that suffering is unavoidable, so what matters most in the way that we respond to suffering?

3. What role does suffering play in life, according to Frankl?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the meaning of love in logotherapy?

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

3. What is anticipatory anxiety?

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

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

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

7. How does Frankl see tension?

8. What is the importance of suffering for Frankl?

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

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

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