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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. How did fellow prisoners respond when someone stole potatoes?

2. What does Frankl term "pan-determinism".

3. What does Frankl claim about what man makes of himself?

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

5. Can logotherapy be used with neurotic individuals?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the importance of suffering for Frankl?

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

3. What is anticipatory anxiety?

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

5. In logotherapy, what is the supra-meaning?

6. How does Frankl see tension?

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

8. What is "existential frustration" for Frankl?

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

10. How does Frankl compare his logotherapy to Freud's psychoanalysis?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Describe the difference between Capos and normal prisoners. How were each selected? Does Frankl present a balanced view of the behavior of each group? How does he justify his sympathies with normal prisoners?

Essay Topic 3

Frankl writes of the danger of "anticipatory anxiety," which he claims is "characteristic of this fear that ... produces precisely that of which the patient is afraid." What examples does Frankl give of this kind of fear? What does he suggest people do to overcome this kind of fear? Do you agree or disagree with Frankl's understanding of fear?

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