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

2. What caused former prisoners to feel bitterness?

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

4. What kind of neuroses result from existential frustration?

5. Frankl writes that suffering is unavoidable, so what matters most in the way that we respond to suffering?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Frankl see tension?

4. What is the importance of suffering for Frankl?

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

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

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

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

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

10. What is the meaning of love in logotherapy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Frankl writes, "Noogenic neuroses do not emerge from conflicts between drives and instincts but rather from conflicts between various values; in other words, from moral conflicts, or, to speak in a more general way, from spiritual problems." What role do Noogenic neuroses play in his theory of logotherapy?

Essay Topic 3

How does Frankl characterize freedom? How do conditions affect freedom? What does he describe as the ultimate freedom?

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