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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 is Frankl's opinion of love?
3. After the liberation of the camp, why does the SS take most of the remaining prisoners?
4. How does Frankl's understanding of individual meaning differ from that of Jean-Paul Sartre?
5. What does Frankl claim is the nature of meaning?
Short Essay Questions
1. What were some of the negative things that former prisoners had to deal with after their release?
2. What happened when a patient who had been through psychoanalysis went to logotherapy? What difference between these approaches does Frankl illustrate with this account?
3. In what way does Frankl argue that prisoners could retain "the last of the human freedoms?"
4. What does Frankl write happened to prisoners who lost hope in the future?
5. What is the "existential vacuum" that Frankl describes?
6. What has Frankl termed "noogenic neuroses"?
7. According to Frankl, what allowed the prisoners to be able to predict their deaths?
8. What does Frankl observe about sexuality in the concentration camp?
9. What is anticipatory anxiety?
10. In logotherapy, what is the supra-meaning?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Frankl writes that the Capo and the SS had similar roles, and that they should be judged on a similar psychological basis. What did Frankl think about the psychology of these two groups?
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 role does Frankl give to the subconscious? What role does he give the conscience? Does he address simple, innate human drives?
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