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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

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

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

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

4. 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) Plato.
(c) Confucius.
(d) Nietzche.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Frankl write about responsibility?

3. How does Frankl write that love is interpreted in psychotherapy?

4. What does Frankl call "existential frustration"?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the meaning of love in logotherapy?

2. What is anticipatory anxiety?

3. What has Frankl termed "noogenic neuroses"?

4. What does Frankl argue should supplement the Statue of Liberty and why?

5. What happened when a patient who had been through psychoanalysis went to logotherapy? What difference between these approaches does Frankl illustrate with this account?

6. How does Frankl describe the "will to meaning"?

7. What does Frankl claim happened to the inner life of prisoners in concentration camp?

8. How does Frankl compare his logotherapy to Freud's psychoanalysis?

9. What does Frankl write is the "crowning" experience for former prisoners?

10. What does Frankl observe about sexuality in the concentration camp?

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