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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Frankl respond to those who claimed they would commit suicide because "they had nothing to expect from life any more"?
(a) "Happiness can still be achieved."
(b) "Man was made to suffer, but there is meaning in suffering. With great humility this is possible."
(c) "You must truly listen to your own inner voice, and you will find that there is much more that you can expect."
(d) "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us."

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

3. How does Frankl write that Freudian psychotherapy deals with spiritual issues?
(a) They are dealt with directly, and with respect for the difficulty that many patients have with these issues.
(b) Frankl writes that spirituality is dealt with by Freudian psychologists as a central issue in life, but it should be addressed with religious leaders.
(c) They are not dealt with directly, but they are seen as having instinctual roots.
(d) Spiritual issues are not dealt with in psychotherapy.

4. When comparing logotherapy and Freudian psychotherapy, what does Frankl write is the focus of logotherapy?
(a) The interior life.
(b) Suffering.
(c) The past.
(d) The future.

5. What does Frankl call "existential frustration"?
(a) The kind of frustration that comes from having superficial relationships.
(b) The result of frustrating man's will to meaning.
(c) A frustration that results when suffering does not lead to meaning.
(d) A frustration that stems from the dull nature of existence.

6. What does Frankl term "pan-determinism".
(a) This is not a term used in the text.
(b) The idea that religious ideas are unimportant.
(c) The psychoanalytic tendency to ignore that man makes some decisions.
(d) The tendency in therapy for patients to blame others rather than taking responsibility for their own lives.

7. What does Frankl write is the aim of traditional Freudian psychotherapy?
(a) Creating a vision for the future
(b) Restoring pleasure and happiness.
(c) Recalling the past.
(d) Relieving pain.

8. Frankl writes that values do not push, but pull people. Why does he make this distinction?
(a) To show that they are part of the inner life of man.
(b) To show that there is always freedom of choice.
(c) To demonstrate that people are born with values.
(d) To argue that man does not create values, but instead recognizes them.

9. How did fellow prisoners respond when someone stole potatoes?
(a) Nobody could figure out who he was.
(b) Rather than turn him in, they chose to be punished.
(c) When they realized this could be done, they began to organize to steal collectively.
(d) They turned him in to the SS for extra soup.

10. What "deep concern" does Frankl write helped him to survive Auschwitz?
(a) His desire to find his mom.
(b) His desire to get even with the SS.
(c) His desire to rewrite a manuscript.
(d) His desire to serve others.

11. In logotherapy, how is the search for meaning seen?
(a) As less important than just accepting suffering.
(b) As important, but not necessary.
(c) As a primary motivational force.
(d) As a game because there is no meaning.

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

13. What does Frankl write about responsibility?
(a) Logotherapy is responsible for improving the world.
(b) It is important to note that the SS were not the only responsible parties involved in torture.
(c) Frankl writes that the therapist is responsible for the direction of each therapy session.
(d) Logotherapy tries to impress on each patient their responsibility.

14. What happened to the senior block warden who had a dream that he would be free on March thirtieth?
(a) He died on March thirty-first.
(b) He fell ill on March thirty-first and died a month later.
(c) He committed suicide a month prior.
(d) He had another dream on March thirtieth that they would be freed on July third.

15. How important is the idea of individual choice for Frankl?
(a) For Frankl, individual choice can preserve a vestige of spiritual freedom.
(b) Frankl believes that man is an accidental product of his environment.
(c) Frankl considers this unimportant and inconsequential to happiness.
(d) Frankl understands individual choice as a myth, since the concentration camps show that we react profoundly by stress.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Frankl use the term logotherapy?

2. What does Frankl claim is the most important part of suffering?

3. When a journalist asked Frankl to describe logotherapy in a sentence, how did he respond?

4. What did Frankl try to reconstruct, that he lost when he arrived to Auschwitz?

5. What does Frankl relate about an American diplomat who, after years of psychotherapy, went to logotherapy?

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