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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 happened, according to the author, to the instinct to violence in the prisoners?

2. What importance does Frankl give to the numbers assigned to prisoners?

3. Frankl writes that "every age has its own collective neurosis." What does he characterize as the neurosis of his day?

4. What question does Frankl claim that more and more doctors are confronted with?

5. What caused former prisoners to feel bitterness?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is "existential frustration" for Frankl?

2. What was the third stage of a the prisoner's mental reaction? How does Frankl characterize this?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How does Frankl see tension?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Logotherapy is sometimes called the "Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy." How does Frankl compare his to these other kinds of therapy? How does he describe his patients who have gone through other kinds of therapy?

Essay Topic 2

Frankl describes the importance for the individual of finding meaning of life. He writes, "Man's search for meaning is a primary force in his life and not a 'secondary rationalization' of instinctual drives." How does he define the meaning of life? How does he suggest that people search for the meaning in their lives? What role does he give to the conditions in life that seem to fully determine behavior?

Essay Topic 3

Frankl writes about the importance of the malnutrition, or starving, of the prisoners at Auschwitz; What consequences did this have in terms of the prisoner's daily speech? How did it affect their dreams? What does Frankl argue that this starving of the prisoners prevented in camp life?

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