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Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) "By respecting nature, we learn to respect ourselves."
(b) "Morality is measured in small moments."
(c) "The way that you behave when nobody is watching speaks loudly of you."
(d) "No one has the right to do wrong."

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

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

4. After the liberation of the camp, why does the SS take most of the remaining prisoners?
(a) To take them to another camp.
(b) To send them to Switzerland.
(c) To kill them.
(d) To torture them so that they would not speak of their experiences.

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

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

7. Frankl cites a study of students at Johns Hopkins University. What did the students cite as important to them?
(a) Finding dignity.
(b) Searching for love.
(c) Making money.
(d) Finding meaning.

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

9. Frankl writes that suffering is unavoidable, so what matters most in the way that we respond to suffering?
(a) Our understanding of why we have been chosen to suffer.
(b) Our ability to understand our suffering as part of the story of our life.
(c) Our love for one another.
(d) Our attitude.

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

11. 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.

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

13. 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 uses vulgar language to describe the hatred he still feels for the SS.
(c) He is now emotionally detached as he remembers his earlier emotional life.
(d) He writes in clinical terms about prisoners mental states, as a doctor, not a former prisoner.

14. 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.

15. What does Frankl argue man determines about his life?
(a) Man decides whether or not to suffer.
(b) Man decides whether or not he will live in love.
(c) Man decides if he will listen to his inner voice.
(d) Man decides what he will be.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the existential vacuum?

2. In contrast to psychoanalysis, what does Frankl claim logotherapy is centered around?

3. In the most difficult moments of our existence, what does Frankl suggest is the salvation of man?

4. What does Frankl term supra-meaning?

5. What does Frankl claim is the nature of meaning?

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