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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. What is Frankl's opinion of love?
3. Why does Frankl use the term logotherapy?
4. What did the more "prominent" prisoners, the Capo, develop in camp?
5. What two kinds of people does Frankl say exist?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is anticipatory anxiety?
2. What is the importance of suffering for Frankl?
3. What happened when a patient who had been through psychoanalysis went to logotherapy? What difference between these approaches does Frankl illustrate with this account?
4. What does Frankl claim happened to the inner life of prisoners in concentration camp?
5. What prompted Frankl to speak to the prisoners about hope? What did he say?
6. In logotherapy, what is the supra-meaning?
7. In what way does Frankl argue that prisoners could retain "the last of the human freedoms?"
8. What is "existential frustration" for Frankl?
9. How did Frankl leave Auschwitz? What happened at the camp after Frankl left Auschwitz?
10. According to Frankl, what allowed the prisoners to be able to predict their deaths?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Frankl describes the search for meaning as a human's primary psychological motivation. Do you agree or disagree? Why?
Essay Topic 2
Frankl writes of how two men who were contemplating suicide seemed to have lost meaning in their lives. He writes, "In both cases it was a question of getting them to realize that life was still expecting something from them; something in the future was expected of them." How does Frankl understand and describe those who commit suicide? What role does finding the meaning in their lives play for him? Does he sympathize with their despair over their feeling of meaningless and suffering? Does he understand suicide to be a choice, or a simple reaction to unfavorable circumstances? Is this understood as characteristic of neurosis?
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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