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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 is the existential vacuum?

2. Why does Frankl use the term logotherapy?

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

4. 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?

5. What does Frankl claim is the nature of meaning?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the importance of suffering for Frankl?

2. What is "existential frustration" for Frankl?

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

4. How does Frankl see tension?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Dr. Gordon W. Allport writes that Frankl "sometimes asks his patients who suffer from a multitude of torments great and small, 'Why do you not commit suicide?'" How does Frankl understand suicide? What does he advise people who feel that they do not have meaning in life, or those who plan on committing suicide because they find they can no longer expect anything from life?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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