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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When a journalist asked Frankl to describe logotherapy in a sentence, how did he respond?
(a) "It is the therapy which takes love and spirituality so seriously that it may ... save the world."
(b) "My patients learn to handle suffering with love and dignity."
(c) "Logotherapy teaches the patient patience."
(d) "In logotherapy the patient ... must hear things which sometimes are very disagreeable to hear."

2. 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.

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

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

5. How does Frankl write that love is interpreted in psychotherapy?
(a) As the result of early family dynamics.
(b) As a troublesome part of life that often leads to difficulty.
(c) As a phenomenon of sexual drives and instincts.
(d) As an unimportant aspect of life.

6. 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) "We can all always choose our breathing patterns, which influence our mood, and that influences our actions."
(d) "Man can preserve a vestige of spiritual freedom, or independence of mind..."

7. 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) Keep the hut where sick inmates were located clean and orderly.
(c) Create full written reports on each of his patience.
(d) Create a full report on the medicines and other supplies that he used.

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

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

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

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

12. What does Frankl believe makes a person "worthy of his sufferings or not"?
(a) Their ability to remove desire from their lives.
(b) Their ability to "focus on the positive aspects of their past."
(c) Their "focus on love," and their "lack of consideration for their own suffering."
(d) Whether "he makes use of" or forgoes "the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him."

13. What does Frankl claim is the most important part of suffering?
(a) The way that leads to love.
(b) The way that one maintains peace in the face of hardship.
(c) One's attitude in the face of it.
(d) How one uses it to serve others.

14. What does Frankl argue man determines about his life?
(a) Man decides what he will be.
(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 whether or not to suffer.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Frankl write that Freudian psychotherapy deals with spiritual issues?

2. What did the camp doctor give his prisoners after they were liberated?

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

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

5. What does Frankl write about responsibility?

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