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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the ways that logotherapy believes meaning in life can be found?
(a) Through deeds, experiencing a value, or suffering.
(b) Through love and service.
(c) Through meditation and following an inner voice.
(d) Through art, love, and meditation.

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

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

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

5. How does Frankl define the difference between how he and Jean-Paul Sartre define the meaning of our existence?
(a) For Frankl, we find our meaning, For Sartre, we invent it.
(b) While Frankl considers meaning important in life, Sartre only considers it interesting, but not essential.
(c) While Frankl argues that the meaning of life is love, Sartre believes that the meaning of life has no connection to others.
(d) Both agree that meaning is central to life, but Sartre believes it is important in how others see us.

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

7. How does the existential vacuum manifest itself?
(a) Depression.
(b) Anxiety.
(c) Boredom.
(d) A sense of guilt.

8. Why does Frankl believe that man behaves morally?
(a) Man is instinctively moral and religious.
(b) Man decides to act morally.
(c) Most men are moral.
(d) Man has a moral drive.

9. 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.

10. What does Frankl argue is the meaning of life?
(a) Humility.
(b) It varies.
(c) Love.
(d) Service.

11. What does Frankl write was the most depressing feature of life in a concentration camp?
(a) Stress in general.
(b) Losing a sense of individuality.
(c) Feeling impotent to affect the future.
(d) Not knowing how long the imprisonment would last.

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

13. What choice does the author claim that people can control in difficult circumstances?
(a) "Man can preserve a vestige of spiritual freedom, or independence of mind..."
(b) "We can all always choose our breathing patterns, which influence our mood, and that influences our actions."
(c) "People, even in these horrible circumstances, can control the way that they treat others."
(d) "In any circumstance... man can choose his own reaction, we can all choose to focus on love."

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Frankl believe makes a person "worthy of his sufferings or not"?

2. What kind of neuroses result from existential frustration?

3. What does Frankl term supra-meaning?

4. What "deep concern" does Frankl write helped him to survive Auschwitz?

5. How did fellow prisoners respond when someone stole potatoes?

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