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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the author's tone of voice in this, the second section, of the book?
(a) He is now emotionally detached as he remembers his earlier emotional life.
(b) He uses vulgar language to describe the hatred he still feels for the SS.
(c) He writes in clinical terms about prisoners mental states, as a doctor, not a former prisoner.
(d) He describes his life before living in the concentration camp in exaggeratedly nostalgic terms.

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

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

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

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

7. What did Frankl try to reconstruct, that he lost when he arrived to Auschwitz?
(a) The inserts in his shoes.
(b) A manuscript.
(c) A ring.
(d) A sling for his injured arm.

8. How does Frankl write that Freudian psychotherapy deals with spiritual issues?
(a) Spiritual issues are not dealt with in psychotherapy.
(b) They are dealt with directly, and with respect for the difficulty that many patients have with these issues.
(c) Frankl writes that spirituality is dealt with by Freudian psychologists as a central issue in life, but it should be addressed with religious leaders.
(d) They are not dealt with directly, but they are seen as having instinctual roots.

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

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

11. What does Frankl relate about an American diplomat who, after years of psychotherapy, went to logotherapy?
(a) After years of exploring the instinctual roots of a spiritual problem, in logotherapy, his desire to change jobs was taken seriously.
(b) The diplomat decided that he no longer needed therapy because his life already was full of meaning.
(c) The diplomat, who was suicidal, and understood this as the result of his difficult infancy, finally learned to focus on the future, and decided not to take his life.
(d) The diplomat learned from logotherapy that his problem was that he understood his job added to the suffering of others, and for that reason he quit.

12. How did fellow prisoners respond when someone stole potatoes?
(a) They turned him in to the SS for extra soup.
(b) Rather than turn him in, they chose to be punished.
(c) Nobody could figure out who he was.
(d) When they realized this could be done, they began to organize to steal collectively.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Frankl himself realize he was free?

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

3. Why does Frankl believe that man behaves morally?

4. What did the camp doctor give his prisoners after they were liberated?

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

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