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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 happened to the senior block warden who had a dream that he would be free on March thirtieth?

2. Why does Frankl believe that man behaves morally?

3. What did Frankl try to reconstruct, that he lost when he arrived to Auschwitz?

4. What role does suffering play in life, according to Frankl?

5. What does Frankl call "existential frustration"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What has Frankl termed "noogenic neuroses"?

2. What is the meaning of love in logotherapy?

3. How does Frankl see tension?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Logotherapy is sometimes called the "Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy." How does Frankl compare his to these other kinds of therapy? How does he describe his patients who have gone through other kinds of therapy?

Essay Topic 3

Frankl describes the search for meaning as a human's primary psychological motivation. Do you agree or disagree? Why?

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