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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 responsibility?
(a) Logotherapy tries to impress on each patient their responsibility.
(b) Logotherapy is responsible for improving the world.
(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.

2. What are noo-dynamics?
(a) A tension between who a person is and who they can become.
(b) The tension between a victim and a victimizer.
(c) The dynamics between existential boredom and meaning.
(d) Family dynamics in which spiritual issues play a role.

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

4. What happened, according to the author, to the instinct to violence in the prisoners?
(a) It grew as they saw more and more violence.
(b) It decreased as they saw the harm violence made.
(c) It completely disappeared as they learned what being a victim was like.
(d) They reacted more and more irritably when faced with violence.

5. 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) Many enjoyed incredible amounts of exercise and great amounts of energy.
(d) They went mad.

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

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

8. 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) One's attitude in the face of it.
(d) How one uses it to serve others.

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

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

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

12. 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.

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

14. 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, 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.
(c) 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.
(d) The diplomat decided that he no longer needed therapy because his life already was full of meaning.

15. What does Frankl argue is the meaning of life?
(a) It varies.
(b) Humility.
(c) Service.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Frankl write about the moral drive?

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

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

4. What does Frankl claim about what man makes of himself?

5. When does the third phase of the prisoners' psychology begin?

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