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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. Frankl cites a study of students at Johns Hopkins University. What did the students cite as important to them?
2. Why does Frankl believe that man behaves morally?
3. What does Frankl claim is the nature of meaning?
4. Frankl writes that values do not push, but pull people. Why does he make this distinction?
5. What caused former prisoners to feel bitterness?
Short Essay Questions
1. In what way does Frankl argue that prisoners could retain "the last of the human freedoms?"
2. How did Frankl leave Auschwitz? What happened at the camp after Frankl left Auschwitz?
3. How does Frankl describe the "will to meaning"?
4. What was the third stage of a the prisoner's mental reaction? How does Frankl characterize this?
5. What happened when a patient who had been through psychoanalysis went to logotherapy? What difference between these approaches does Frankl illustrate with this account?
6. How does Frankl compare his logotherapy to Freud's psychoanalysis?
7. What opportunity does Frankl see in camp life?
8. What has Frankl termed "noogenic neuroses"?
9. According to Frankl, what allowed the prisoners to be able to predict their deaths?
10. What does Frankl observe about sexuality in the concentration camp?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Frankl writes about the importance of the malnutrition, or starving, of the prisoners at Auschwitz; What consequences did this have in terms of the prisoner's daily speech? How did it affect their dreams? What does Frankl argue that this starving of the prisoners prevented in camp life?
Essay Topic 2
Frankl describes three distinct phases in the mental life of the prisoners he lived with in concentration camps. What characterizes each of these phases? Do you believe that these phases can be seen in any other situations or circumstances?
Essay Topic 3
What would Frankl say is the difference between those who are able to overcome life's problems and those who are not? What examples from the concentration camps might he use to illustrate this difference? What role do circumstances play in their survival? What role does their mental outlook take?
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