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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the existential vacuum?
(a) A process that patients with anxiety problems use to return to normal.
(b) A kind of therapy for patients with existential issues.
(c) Lack of meaning in life.
(d) Lack of love in life.

2. Why does Dr. Frankl describe that he sits next to corpses "crawling with lice" but they did not bother him?
(a) He was happy, sitting near these corpses, thinking about the lives that he was able to save as a doctor.
(b) He mentions this to illustrate the ideas that he was so emotionally detached that he simply didn't care who was near him.
(c) He was thankful, as he looked at these corpses, that he had not yet died.
(d) This was a space where he could find short periods of solitude.

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

4. What does Frankl relate about an American diplomat who, after years of psychotherapy, went to logotherapy?
(a) 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.
(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) After years of exploring the instinctual roots of a spiritual problem, in logotherapy, his desire to change jobs was taken seriously.

5. What does Frankl believe makes a person "worthy of his sufferings or not"?
(a) Their ability to remove desire from their lives.
(b) Their ability to "focus on the positive aspects of their past."
(c) Their "focus on love," and their "lack of consideration for their own suffering."
(d) Whether "he makes use of" or forgoes "the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him."

6. What is Frankl's tone in "Basic Concepts of Logotherapy"?
(a) Sad and concerned.
(b) Serious and optimistic.
(c) Clinical.
(d) Angry.

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

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

9. 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.

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

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

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

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

14. What kind of neuroses result from existential frustration?
(a) Depressive neuroses.
(b) Anxiety neuroses.
(c) Noogenic neuroses.
(d) Existential neuroses.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Frankl writes that values do not push, but pull people. Why does he make this distinction?

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

3. What does Frankl claim is the most important part of suffering?

4. What does Frankl suggest happens to "self-centeredness" in logotherapy?

5. What did Frankl speak to his fellow prisoners about when their morale was low?

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