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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. How does Frankl write that love is interpreted in psychotherapy?
(a) As a troublesome part of life that often leads to difficulty.
(b) As a phenomenon of sexual drives and instincts.
(c) As the result of early family dynamics.
(d) As an unimportant aspect of life.

2. What caused former prisoners to feel bitterness?
(a) That they lost the company of their former prisonmates.
(b) The lack of response from people in prisoners' former hometowns.
(c) That the SS also went free.
(d) The fact that they lost nearly all of their material wealth, and had to start anew.n

3. Frankl writes that suffering is unavoidable, so what matters most in the way that we respond to suffering?
(a) Our love for one another.
(b) Our ability to understand our suffering as part of the story of our life.
(c) Our attitude.
(d) Our understanding of why we have been chosen to suffer.

4. What does Frankl believe makes a person "worthy of his sufferings or not"?
(a) Their ability to remove desire from their lives.
(b) Their "focus on love," and their "lack of consideration for their own suffering."
(c) Whether "he makes use of" or forgoes "the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him."
(d) Their ability to "focus on the positive aspects of their past."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were camp inmates frightened of decisions?

2. What rule did the author establish for himself in Auschwitz?

3. What does Frankl term supra-meaning?

4. What does Frankl write was the most depressing feature of life in a concentration camp?

5. As Frankl and his fellow prisoners watched fellow prisoners, what could they calculate?

(see the answer key)

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