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

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

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

4. For Frankl, what makes life meaningful and purposeful?
(a) Spiritual freedom.
(b) Love.
(c) Hope for the future.
(d) Humanity.

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

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

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

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

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

10. What happened when prisoners, who were pressured for years, suddenly released that pressure?
(a) They found they enjoyed their own company much more than the company of those who had never experienced life in a concentration camp.
(b) They went mad.
(c) They ate large amounts and spoke at length.
(d) Many enjoyed incredible amounts of exercise and great amounts of energy.

11. What is "hyper-intention"?
(a) When a person is so intent on a goal that they are hyper.
(b) When an excess of intention makes the intended goal impossible.
(c) This term is not used in the book.
(d) When an excess of energy creates a lack of meaning.

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

13. In the most difficult moments of our existence, what does Frankl suggest is the salvation of man?
(a) To pray.
(b) To look into the future.
(c) To consider our favorite things.
(d) To recall the past.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When a journalist asked Frankl to describe logotherapy in a sentence, how did he respond?

2. How does the existential vacuum manifest itself?

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

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

5. How does Frankl define the difference between how he and Jean-Paul Sartre define the meaning of our existence?

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