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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What question does Frankl claim that more and more doctors are confronted with?
(a) Why do we all die?
(b) Where can I find love?
(c) How can I act responsibly?
(d) What is life?

3. When a journalist asked Frankl to describe logotherapy in a sentence, how did he respond?
(a) "In logotherapy the patient ... must hear things which sometimes are very disagreeable to hear."
(b) "My patients learn to handle suffering with love and dignity."
(c) "It is the therapy which takes love and spirituality so seriously that it may ... save the world."
(d) "Logotherapy teaches the patient patience."

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

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

6. What caused former prisoners to feel bitterness?
(a) That the SS also went free.
(b) The lack of response from people in prisoners' former hometowns.
(c) The fact that they lost nearly all of their material wealth, and had to start anew.n
(d) That they lost the company of their former prisonmates.

7. How does Frankl's understanding of individual meaning differ from that of Jean-Paul Sartre?
(a) For Sartre, it is invented. For Frankl it is found.
(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) Frankl took the idea from Sartre, and his definition is the same.

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

9. When does the third phase of the prisoners' psychology begin?
(a) After depression.
(b) Once they are no longer afraid.
(c) After all hope is lost.
(d) At liberation.

10. Frankl writes that "every age has its own collective neurosis." What does he characterize as the neurosis of his day?
(a) Self-absorbtion.
(b) Anxiety.
(c) The existential vacuum.
(d) Noo-dynamics.

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

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. How did Frankl himself realize he was free?
(a) He saw a former fellow prisoner, and they realized how different they each looked.
(b) He returned to work, and was treated with respect by his clients for the first time in years.
(c) When walking down the street, someone called his name, and he realized that he had his identity back.
(d) Walking alone in a field, he fell to his knees, recalling his former prayers for freedom.

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) Frankl writes that the therapist is responsible for the direction of each therapy session.
(d) It is important to note that the SS were not the only responsible parties involved in torture.

Short Answer Questions

1. For Frankl, what makes life meaningful and purposeful?

2. What role does suffering play in life, according to Frankl?

3. What does Frankl call "existential frustration"?

4. How important is the idea of individual choice for Frankl?

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

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