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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Create a full report on the medicines and other supplies that he used.
(c) Keep the hut where sick inmates were located clean and orderly.
(d) Treat his patients to the best of his ability.

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

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

4. Can logotherapy be used with neurotic individuals?
(a) Frankl writes that they should be treated medically.
(b) Frankl believes that they should be seen first by someone using a more dogmatic approach.
(c) Frankl writes that they, in particular, can benefit from logotherapy.
(d) Frankl argues that they should not use logotherapy until they are treated medically.

5. How does Frankl write that Freudian psychotherapy deals with spiritual issues?
(a) Spiritual issues are not dealt with in psychotherapy.
(b) They are not dealt with directly, but they are seen as having instinctual roots.
(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 dealt with directly, and with respect for the difficulty that many patients have with these issues.

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

7. In contrast to psychoanalysis, what does Frankl claim logotherapy is centered around?
(a) Decision.
(b) The right to dignity.
(c) Principle.
(d) The will to meaning.

8. 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 ate large amounts and spoke at length.
(c) They went mad.
(d) Many enjoyed incredible amounts of exercise and great amounts of energy.

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

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

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

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

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

14. What role does suffering play in life, according to Frankl?
(a) It is a part of life to be worked through to get to a more hopeful future.
(b) It is best avoided to the extent possible.
(c) It is a necessary evil from which we can all learn valuable life lessons.
(d) It is a meaningful part of life.

15. Before writing the second section of this text, had Frankl described logotherapy in writing?
(a) Yes, in a published article.
(b) Yes, in seventeen volumes in German.
(c) Yes, in journals.
(d) No.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Frankl write about responsibility?

2. How does logotherapy deal with spiritual issues?

3. What happened, according to the author, to the instinct to violence in the prisoners?

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

5. What does Frankl write was the most depressing feature of life in a concentration camp?

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