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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is "hyper-intention"?
(a) When an excess of intention makes the intended goal impossible.
(b) When an excess of energy creates a lack of meaning.
(c) When a person is so intent on a goal that they are hyper.
(d) This term is not used in the book.

2. What did the camp doctor give his prisoners after they were liberated?
(a) Magazines.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Cigarettes.
(d) Whiskey.

3. 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.

4. What does Frankl suggest happens to "self-centeredness" in logotherapy?
(a) It is broken up.
(b) It is fostered in order to build confidence.
(c) It is used to show the patient how their thought pattern should change.
(d) It is made evident.

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

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

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

8. 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?
(a) "By respecting nature, we learn to respect ourselves."
(b) "The way that you behave when nobody is watching speaks loudly of you."
(c) "No one has the right to do wrong."
(d) "Morality is measured in small moments."

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

10. In contrast to psychoanalysis, what does Frankl claim logotherapy is centered around?
(a) Principle.
(b) The right to dignity.
(c) Decision.
(d) The will to meaning.

11. What does Frankl argue man determines about his life?
(a) Man decides what he will be.
(b) Man decides whether or not he will live in love.
(c) Man decides if he will listen to his inner voice.
(d) Man decides whether or not to suffer.

12. What does Frankl claim about what man makes of himself?
(a) That he himself creates it.
(b) That it is the cause of suffering.
(c) That his circumstances lead to it.
(d) That it is the result of his childhood.

13. Can logotherapy be used with neurotic individuals?
(a) Frankl argues that they should not use logotherapy until they are treated medically.
(b) Frankl believes that they should be seen first by someone using a more dogmatic approach.
(c) Frankl writes that they, in particular, can benefit from logotherapy.
(d) Frankl writes that they should be treated medically.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are noo-dynamics?

2. What happened when prisoners, who were pressured for years, suddenly released that pressure?

3. What happened, according to the author, to the instinct to violence in the prisoners?

4. What does Frankl write about responsibility?

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

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