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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 believe makes a person "worthy of his sufferings or not"?
(a) Their "focus on love," and their "lack of consideration for their own suffering."
(b) Their ability to "focus on the positive aspects of their past."
(c) Their ability to remove desire from their lives.
(d) Whether "he makes use of" or forgoes "the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him."

2. What is Frankl's opinion of love?
(a) It is essential to a happy life.
(b) It is a great way to find meaning.
(c) True service to another human being leads to a meaningful life.
(d) It is the only way to grasp another human being.

3. Looking back at the experience of living in a concentration camp, what does Frankl say is the most wonderful feeling?
(a) That so many survived.
(b) That there is nothing left to fear -- except God.
(c) That there is no returning to camp.
(d) That the SS has been punished.

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

5. What does Frankl suggest happens to "self-centeredness" in logotherapy?
(a) It is made evident.
(b) It is broken up.
(c) It is used to show the patient how their thought pattern should change.
(d) It is fostered in order to build confidence.

Short Answer Questions

1. Frankl writes that "every age has its own collective neurosis." What does he characterize as the neurosis of his day?

2. What did the more "prominent" prisoners, the Capo, develop in camp?

3. How does logotherapy deal with spiritual issues?

4. When a journalist asked Frankl to describe logotherapy in a sentence, how did he respond?

5. Frankl writes that values do not push, but pull people. Why does he make this distinction?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What is the importance of suffering for Frankl?

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

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

10. What is the meaning of love in logotherapy?

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