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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 role does suffering play in life, according to Frankl?
(a) It is a part of life to be worked through to get to a more hopeful future.
(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 meaningful part of life.

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

3. What does Frankl suggest is the meaning of life?
(a) Creative work is the purpose of life.
(b) Love.
(c) It is different for each individual.
(d) Charitable work or work that advances the common causes of humanity.

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

5. What is Frankl's tone in "Basic Concepts of Logotherapy"?
(a) Serious and optimistic.
(b) Sad and concerned.
(c) Angry.
(d) Clinical.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of neuroses result from existential frustration?

2. When comparing logotherapy and Freudian psychotherapy, what does Frankl write is the focus of logotherapy?

3. What does Frankl argue man determines about his life?

4. What caused former prisoners to feel bitterness?

5. What does Frankl argue is the meaning of life?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is "existential frustration" for Frankl?

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

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

5. What has Frankl termed "noogenic neuroses"?

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

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

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

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

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

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