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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 is responsible for improving the world.
(b) Frankl writes that the therapist is responsible for the direction of each therapy session.
(c) Logotherapy tries to impress on each patient their responsibility.
(d) It is important to note that the SS were not the only responsible parties involved in torture.

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

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

4. What choice does the author claim that people can control in difficult circumstances?
(a) "In any circumstance... man can choose his own reaction, we can all choose to focus on love."
(b) "People, even in these horrible circumstances, can control the way that they treat others."
(c) "Man can preserve a vestige of spiritual freedom, or independence of mind..."
(d) "We can all always choose our breathing patterns, which influence our mood, and that influences our actions."

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

6. What did Frankl try to teach a former prisoner who felt that he could trample crops in a field because he had been through so much himself?
(a) "No one has the right to do wrong."
(b) "By respecting nature, we learn to respect ourselves."
(c) "Morality is measured in small moments."
(d) "The way that you behave when nobody is watching speaks loudly of you."

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

8. What does Frankl write about the moral drive?
(a) No such drive can ever exist.
(b) It is an important drive.
(c) It was ignored by Freud, but Frankl discovered it.
(d) When it is not addressed serious, it can have serious consequences.

9. 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.

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

11. What does the author have to do to satisfy the SS while filling in for the senior block warden?
(a) Treat his patients to the best of his ability.
(b) Create full written reports on each of his patience.
(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 believe makes a person "worthy of his sufferings or not"?
(a) Their ability to remove desire from their lives.
(b) Whether "he makes use of" or forgoes "the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him."
(c) Their ability to "focus on the positive aspects of their past."
(d) Their "focus on love," and their "lack of consideration for their own suffering."

13. What is the name of the school of therapy that Frankl stands for?
(a) Behavioral therapy.
(b) Hypno-therapy.
(c) Psychotherapy.
(d) Logotherapy.

14. What does Frankl term supra-meaning?
(a) He does not use this term.
(b) A spiritual understanding that transcends our ability to describe it in words.
(c) A level of understanding meaning that transcends the individual and can only be understood within groups.
(d) An ultimate meaning that transcends man's intellectual capabilities.

15. What does Frankl relate about an American diplomat who, after years of psychotherapy, went to logotherapy?
(a) The diplomat decided that he no longer needed therapy because his life already was full of meaning.
(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) After years of exploring the instinctual roots of a spiritual problem, in logotherapy, his desire to change jobs was taken seriously.
(d) 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What question does Frankl claim that more and more doctors are confronted with?

2. Why does Dr. Frankl describe that he sits next to corpses "crawling with lice" but they did not bother him?

3. After the liberation of the camp, why does the SS take most of the remaining prisoners?

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

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

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