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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happened when prisoners, who were pressured for years, suddenly released that pressure?
(a) Many enjoyed incredible amounts of exercise and great amounts of energy.
(b) They ate large amounts and spoke at length.
(c) They found they enjoyed their own company much more than the company of those who had never experienced life in a concentration camp.
(d) They went mad.

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

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

5. How does Frankl define the difference between how he and Jean-Paul Sartre define the meaning of our existence?
(a) While Frankl considers meaning important in life, Sartre only considers it interesting, but not essential.
(b) While Frankl argues that the meaning of life is love, Sartre believes that the meaning of life has no connection to others.
(c) For Frankl, we find our meaning, For Sartre, we invent it.
(d) Both agree that meaning is central to life, but Sartre believes it is important in how others see us.

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

7. What question does Frankl claim that more and more doctors are confronted with?
(a) Why do we all die?
(b) How can I act responsibly?
(c) What is life?
(d) Where can I find love?

8. Frankl writes that values do not push, but pull people. Why does he make this distinction?
(a) To demonstrate that people are born with values.
(b) To argue that man does not create values, but instead recognizes them.
(c) To show that there is always freedom of choice.
(d) To show that they are part of the inner life of man.

9. What does Frankl write is the aim of traditional Freudian psychotherapy?
(a) Relieving pain.
(b) Creating a vision for the future
(c) Recalling the past.
(d) Restoring pleasure and happiness.

10. Looking back at the experience of living in a concentration camp, what does Frankl say is the most wonderful feeling?
(a) That there is nothing left to fear -- except God.
(b) That the SS has been punished.
(c) That so many survived.
(d) That there is no returning to camp.

11. What does Frankl suggest is the meaning of life?
(a) Love.
(b) It is different for each individual.
(c) Creative work is the purpose of life.
(d) Charitable work or work that advances the common causes of humanity.

12. What kind of statue does Frankl argue should compliment the Statue of Liberty?
(a) A Statue of Memory.
(b) A Statue of Meaning.
(c) A Statue of Responsibility.
(d) A Statue of Hope.

13. Why does Dr. Frankl describe that he sits next to corpses "crawling with lice" but they did not bother him?
(a) He was thankful, as he looked at these corpses, that he had not yet died.
(b) He was happy, sitting near these corpses, thinking about the lives that he was able to save as a doctor.
(c) He mentions this to illustrate the ideas that he was so emotionally detached that he simply didn't care who was near him.
(d) This was a space where he could find short periods of solitude.

14. For Frankl, what makes life meaningful and purposeful?
(a) Hope for the future.
(b) Love.
(c) Spiritual freedom.
(d) Humanity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Frankl's understanding of individual meaning differ from that of Jean-Paul Sartre?

2. How important is the idea of individual choice for Frankl?

3. What does Frankl suggest happens to "self-centeredness" in logotherapy?

4. What happened to the senior block warden who had a dream that he would be free on March thirtieth?

5. What does Frankl write was the most depressing feature of life in a concentration camp?

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