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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. Were all foremen harsh and cruel?
(a) Yes, and the harshest tended to hold the most power.
(b) No, there were some who felt sorry for the prisoners.
(c) Very nearly all.
(d) Yes, this was always true.

2. What is the name of the school of therapy that Frankl stands for?
(a) Hypno-therapy.
(b) Psychotherapy.
(c) Behavioral therapy.
(d) Logotherapy.

3. When Frankl was scheduled to be transported to another camp, what did the chief doctor do?
(a) Fired Frankl from his job.
(b) Forged a letter of introduction.
(c) Created a new position for Frankl in the next camp.
(d) Arranged for Frankl to stay.

4. When a journalist asked Frankl to describe logotherapy in a sentence, how did he respond?
(a) "In logotherapy the patient ... must hear things which sometimes are very disagreeable to hear."
(b) "My patients learn to handle suffering with love and dignity."
(c) "It is the therapy which takes love and spirituality so seriously that it may ... save the world."
(d) "Logotherapy teaches the patient patience."

5. What importance does Frankl give to the numbers assigned to prisoners?
(a) These were assigned because they were simpler and more economical to tattoo on prisoner's bodies than full names.
(b) The use of numbers was part of a program to erase the prisoner's name, history, and past.
(c) This was just one more humiliation.
(d) This was a method devised at Auschwitz in order to easily track prisoners that were transported from one concentration camp to another.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Frankl himself realize he was free?

2. What does Frankl call "existential frustration"?

3. Why does Frankl use the term logotherapy?

4. What is Frankl's tone in "Basic Concepts of Logotherapy"?

5. Frankl writes that "every age has its own collective neurosis." What does he characterize as the neurosis of his day?

(see the answer key)

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