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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happened to the senior block warden who had a dream that he would be free on March thirtieth?
(a) He had another dream on March thirtieth that they would be freed on July third.
(b) He died on March thirty-first.
(c) He fell ill on March thirty-first and died a month later.
(d) He committed suicide a month prior.

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

4. What does Frankl suggest happens to "self-centeredness" in logotherapy?
(a) It is made evident.
(b) It is fostered in order to build confidence.
(c) It is broken up.
(d) It is used to show the patient how their thought pattern should change.

5. 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 art, love, and meditation.
(d) Through meditation and following an inner voice.

6. How does logotherapy deal with spiritual issues?
(a) As unnecessary because there is no single meaning.
(b) Seriously, in spiritual terms.
(c) As instincts.
(d) Logotherapy does not deal with these issues.

7. What does Frankl claim about what man makes of himself?
(a) That it is the result of his childhood.
(b) That it is the cause of suffering.
(c) That his circumstances lead to it.
(d) That he himself creates it.

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

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

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

11. What "deep concern" does Frankl write helped him to survive Auschwitz?
(a) His desire to rewrite a manuscript.
(b) His desire to find his mom.
(c) His desire to get even with the SS.
(d) His desire to serve others.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Frankl himself realize he was free?

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

3. Why does Frankl believe that man behaves morally?

4. In logotherapy, how is the search for meaning seen?

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

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