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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What choice does the author claim that people can control in difficult circumstances?

2. What caused former prisoners to feel bitterness?

3. What does Frankl believe makes a person "worthy of his sufferings or not"?

4. Why does Frankl use the term logotherapy?

5. What are the ways that logotherapy believes meaning in life can be found?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is "existential frustration" for Frankl?

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

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

8. How does Frankl see tension?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Frankl's description of life in camp deals mostly with his own experience and the experiences of the men he was surrounded by. Women and children are nearly absent. Describe how you imagine life for a woman or child living under these circumstances might be different. Do you believe they would live through the same mental stages?

Essay Topic 2

Frankl quotes Nietzsche multiple times in this book, writing, "He who has a why to live for can bear any how." How does this quote reflect Frankl's ideas and tone in Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the difference between Capos and normal prisoners. How were each selected? Does Frankl present a balanced view of the behavior of each group? How does he justify his sympathies with normal prisoners?

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