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

2. What question does Frankl claim that more and more doctors are confronted with?

3. What did Frankl try to teach a former prisoner who felt that he could trample crops in a field because he had been through so much himself?

4. How does Frankl write that love is interpreted in psychotherapy?

5. What does Frankl claim is the most important part of suffering?

Short Essay Questions

1. What opportunity does Frankl see in camp life?

2. What is the meaning of love in logotherapy?

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

4. How does Frankl describe the "will to meaning"?

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

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

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

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

9. How did Frankl leave Auschwitz? What happened at the camp after Frankl left Auschwitz?

10. How does Frankl see tension?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Frankl writes, "The term 'existential' may be used in three ways: to refer to (1) existence itself, i.e., the specifically human mode of being; (2) the meaning of existence and (3) the striving to find a concrete meaning in personal existence, that is to say, the will to meaning." What does Frankl write about existential frustration and the existential vacuum?

Essay Topic 2

How does Frankl characterize freedom? How do conditions affect freedom? What does he describe as the ultimate freedom?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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