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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Frankl speak to his fellow prisoners about when their morale was low?
(a) Love.
(b) Hygiene.
(c) Hope.
(d) Death.

3. What does Frankl write about the moral drive?
(a) No such drive can ever exist.
(b) When it is not addressed serious, it can have serious consequences.
(c) It was ignored by Freud, but Frankl discovered it.
(d) It is an important drive.

4. Why does Frankl use the term logotherapy?
(a) Logo means "suffering" in Latin.
(b) A fellow prisoner coined the term, and Frankl uses it as a homage to him.
(c) Logo means "meaning" in Greek.
(d) Logo means "love" in Greek.

5. What kind of statue does Frankl argue should compliment the Statue of Liberty?
(a) A Statue of Hope.
(b) A Statue of Meaning.
(c) A Statue of Memory.
(d) A Statue of Responsibility.

6. What did the more "prominent" prisoners, the Capo, develop in camp?
(a) Major depressive disorder.
(b) Delusions of grandeur.
(c) Dementia.
(d) Delirium.

7. What is Frankl's opinion of love?
(a) It is the only way to grasp another human being.
(b) It is essential to a happy life.
(c) True service to another human being leads to a meaningful life.
(d) It is a great way to find meaning.

8. How does Frankl respond to those who claimed they would commit suicide because "they had nothing to expect from life any more"?
(a) "Man was made to suffer, but there is meaning in suffering. With great humility this is possible."
(b) "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us."
(c) "Happiness can still be achieved."
(d) "You must truly listen to your own inner voice, and you will find that there is much more that you can expect."

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

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

11. What happened, according to the author, to the instinct to violence in the prisoners?
(a) It decreased as they saw the harm violence made.
(b) It completely disappeared as they learned what being a victim was like.
(c) It grew as they saw more and more violence.
(d) They reacted more and more irritably when faced with violence.

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

13. 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) Confucius.
(c) Nietzche.
(d) Christ.

14. What does Frankl term supra-meaning?
(a) A level of understanding meaning that transcends the individual and can only be understood within groups.
(b) He does not use this term.
(c) An ultimate meaning that transcends man's intellectual capabilities.
(d) A spiritual understanding that transcends our ability to describe it in words.

15. 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 demonstrate that people are born with values.
(c) To show that they are part of the inner life of man.
(d) To show that there is always freedom of choice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the school of therapy that Frankl stands for?

2. After the liberation of the camp, why does the SS take most of the remaining prisoners?

3. What does Frankl term "pan-determinism".

4. What are the ways that logotherapy believes meaning in life can be found?

5. What importance does Frankl give to the numbers assigned to prisoners?

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