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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Frankl respond to those who claimed they would commit suicide because "they had nothing to expect from life any more"?
(a) "Man was made to suffer, but there is meaning in suffering. With great humility this is possible."
(b) "You must truly listen to your own inner voice, and you will find that there is much more that you can expect."
(c) "Happiness can still be achieved."
(d) "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us."

2. What does Frankl call "existential frustration"?
(a) The result of frustrating man's will to meaning.
(b) A frustration that stems from the dull nature of existence.
(c) The kind of frustration that comes from having superficial relationships.
(d) A frustration that results when suffering does not lead to meaning.

3. What importance does Frankl give to the numbers assigned to prisoners?
(a) The use of numbers was part of a program to erase the prisoner's name, history, and past.
(b) This was a method devised at Auschwitz in order to easily track prisoners that were transported from one concentration camp to another.
(c) This was just one more humiliation.
(d) These were assigned because they were simpler and more economical to tattoo on prisoner's bodies than full names.

4. What is "hyper-intention"?
(a) When an excess of intention makes the intended goal impossible.
(b) This term is not used in the book.
(c) When an excess of energy creates a lack of meaning.
(d) When a person is so intent on a goal that they are hyper.

5. How does Frankl write that Freudian psychotherapy deals with spiritual issues?
(a) They are not dealt with directly, but they are seen as having instinctual roots.
(b) They are dealt with directly, and with respect for the difficulty that many patients have with these issues.
(c) Spiritual issues are not dealt with in psychotherapy.
(d) Frankl writes that spirituality is dealt with by Freudian psychologists as a central issue in life, but it should be addressed with religious leaders.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did fellow prisoners respond when someone stole potatoes?

2. When a journalist asked Frankl to describe logotherapy in a sentence, how did he respond?

3. What does the author have to do to satisfy the SS while filling in for the senior block warden?

4. How does Frankl's understanding of individual meaning differ from that of Jean-Paul Sartre?

5. After the liberation of the camp, why does the SS take most of the remaining prisoners?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Frankl argue should supplement the Statue of Liberty and why?

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

4. What is the meaning of love in logotherapy?

5. What does Frankl claim happened to the inner life of prisoners in concentration camp?

6. What is "existential frustration" for Frankl?

7. According to Frankl, what allowed the prisoners to be able to predict their deaths?

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

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

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

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