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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Logotherapy in a Nutshell" (through page 157).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are noo-dynamics?
(a) The tension between a victim and a victimizer.
(b) A tension between who a person is and who they can become.
(c) Family dynamics in which spiritual issues play a role.
(d) The dynamics between existential boredom and meaning.

2. What does Frankl relate about an American diplomat who, after years of psychotherapy, went to logotherapy?
(a) The diplomat, who was suicidal, and understood this as the result of his difficult infancy, finally learned to focus on the future, and decided not to take his life.
(b) The diplomat learned from logotherapy that his problem was that he understood his job added to the suffering of others, and for that reason he quit.
(c) The diplomat decided that he no longer needed therapy because his life already was full of meaning.
(d) After years of exploring the instinctual roots of a spiritual problem, in logotherapy, his desire to change jobs was taken seriously.

3. What did the more "prominent" prisoners, the Capo, develop in camp?
(a) Major depressive disorder.
(b) Delusions of grandeur.
(c) Dementia.
(d) Delirium.

4. For Frankl, what makes life meaningful and purposeful?
(a) Humanity.
(b) Hope for the future.
(c) Spiritual freedom.
(d) Love.

5. What does Frankl argue is the meaning of life?
(a) It varies.
(b) Love.
(c) Service.
(d) Humility.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens in the story of Death in Teheran?

2. What does Frankl argue hurts most about being hit?

3. How does Frankl define the difference between how he and Jean-Paul Sartre define the meaning of our existence?

4. In the most difficult moments of our existence, what does Frankl suggest is the salvation of man?

5. What role does suffering play in life, according to Frankl?

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