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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Frankl quote (more than once) as writing: "He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how."
(a) Plato.
(b) Christ.
(c) Nietzche.
(d) Confucius.

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

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

4. How does Frankl's understanding of individual meaning differ from that of Jean-Paul Sartre?
(a) Frankl took the idea from Sartre, and his definition is the same.
(b) Sartre believes there is no meaning. Frankl believes it is crucial to life.
(c) Sartre believes that meaning is collective. Frankl believes it is individual.
(d) For Sartre, it is invented. For Frankl it is found.

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

6. What does Frankl suggest is the meaning of life?
(a) Love.
(b) It is different for each individual.
(c) Charitable work or work that advances the common causes of humanity.
(d) Creative work is the purpose of life.

7. In the most difficult moments of our existence, what does Frankl suggest is the salvation of man?
(a) To look into the future.
(b) To recall the past.
(c) To pray.
(d) To consider our favorite things.

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

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

10. What happened when prisoners, who were pressured for years, suddenly released that pressure?
(a) They ate large amounts and spoke at length.
(b) They found they enjoyed their own company much more than the company of those who had never experienced life in a concentration camp.
(c) Many enjoyed incredible amounts of exercise and great amounts of energy.
(d) They went mad.

11. What two kinds of people does Frankl say exist?
(a) Spiritual and non-spiritual.
(b) Decent and indecent.
(c) Loving and fearful.
(d) Strong and weak.

12. What does Frankl claim is the most important part of suffering?
(a) One's attitude in the face of it.
(b) How one uses it to serve others.
(c) The way that leads to love.
(d) The way that one maintains peace in the face of hardship.

13. What does Frankl write about those with very difficult circumstances, such as being diagnosed with a terminal illness?
(a) He writes that these circumstances create martyrs.
(b) Frankl believes that these circumstances would cause anyone to suffer terribly.
(c) He believes that people can rise above his outward fate.
(d) He believes that those who are discreet and do not complain can die with dignity.

14. What does the author have to do to satisfy the SS while filling in for the senior block warden?
(a) Create a full report on the medicines and other supplies that he used.
(b) Keep the hut where sick inmates were located clean and orderly.
(c) Create full written reports on each of his patience.
(d) Treat his patients to the best of his ability.

15. 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 understanding of why we have been chosen to suffer.
(d) Our attitude.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Frankl speak to his fellow prisoners about when their morale was low?

2. What does Frankl argue man determines about his life?

3. 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?

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

5. How does Frankl write that Freudian psychotherapy deals with spiritual issues?

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