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Man's Search for Meaning Test | Final Test - Medium

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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. Frankl writes that values do not push, but pull people. Why does he make this distinction?
(a) To demonstrate that people are born with values.
(b) To show that there is always freedom of choice.
(c) To argue that man does not create values, but instead recognizes them.
(d) To show that they are part of the inner life of man.

2. What is Frankl's opinion of love?
(a) It is the only way to grasp another human being.
(b) True service to another human being leads to a meaningful life.
(c) It is a great way to find meaning.
(d) It is essential to a happy life.

3. What does Frankl claim is the most important part of suffering?
(a) How one uses it to serve others.
(b) One's attitude in the face of it.
(c) The way that one maintains peace in the face of hardship.
(d) The way that leads to love.

4. What does Frankl claim about what man makes of himself?
(a) That his circumstances lead to it.
(b) That he himself creates it.
(c) That it is the result of his childhood.
(d) That it is the cause of suffering.

5. Why does Frankl believe that man behaves morally?
(a) Man decides to act morally.
(b) Man has a moral drive.
(c) Man is instinctively moral and religious.
(d) Most men are moral.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Frankl write about the moral drive?

2. 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?

3. What happened, according to the author, to the instinct to violence in the prisoners?

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

5. When does the third phase of the prisoners' psychology begin?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Frankl write happened to prisoners who lost hope in the future?

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

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

5. What does Frankl observe about sexuality in the concentration camp?

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

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

8. What is the importance of suffering for Frankl?

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

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

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