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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 important is the idea of individual choice for Frankl?
(a) Frankl believes that man is an accidental product of his environment.
(b) For Frankl, individual choice can preserve a vestige of spiritual freedom.
(c) Frankl understands individual choice as a myth, since the concentration camps show that we react profoundly by stress.
(d) Frankl considers this unimportant and inconsequential to happiness.

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

3. Frankl writes that suffering is unavoidable, so what matters most in the way that we respond to suffering?
(a) Our understanding of why we have been chosen to suffer.
(b) Our love for one another.
(c) Our attitude.
(d) Our ability to understand our suffering as part of the story of our life.

4. What does Frankl believe makes a person "worthy of his sufferings or not"?
(a) Their ability to remove desire from their lives.
(b) Their "focus on love," and their "lack of consideration for their own suffering."
(c) Whether "he makes use of" or forgoes "the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him."
(d) Their ability to "focus on the positive aspects of their past."

5. Looking back at the experience of living in a concentration camp, what does Frankl say is the most wonderful feeling?
(a) That the SS has been punished.
(b) That so many survived.
(c) That there is no returning to camp.
(d) That there is nothing left to fear -- except God.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two kinds of people does Frankl say exist?

2. What "deep concern" does Frankl write helped him to survive Auschwitz?

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

4. What are the ways that logotherapy believes meaning in life can be found?

5. What does Frankl write about those with very difficult circumstances, such as being diagnosed with a terminal illness?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What opportunity does Frankl see in camp life?

4. What is the meaning of love in logotherapy?

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

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

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

8. What prompted Frankl to speak to the prisoners about hope? What did he say?

9. What is anticipatory anxiety?

10. What is the importance of suffering for Frankl?

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