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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What importance does Frankl give to the numbers assigned to prisoners?
(a) The use of numbers was part of a program to erase the prisoner's name, history, and past.
(b) This was a method devised at Auschwitz in order to easily track prisoners that were transported from one concentration camp to another.
(c) These were assigned because they were simpler and more economical to tattoo on prisoner's bodies than full names.
(d) This was just one more humiliation.

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

3. 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 died on March thirty-first.
(d) He committed suicide a month prior.

4. What "deep concern" does Frankl write helped him to survive Auschwitz?
(a) His desire to get even with the SS.
(b) His desire to serve others.
(c) His desire to find his mom.
(d) His desire to rewrite a manuscript.

5. What did the camp doctor give his prisoners after they were liberated?
(a) Cigarettes.
(b) Magazines.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Whiskey.

6. In logotherapy, how is the search for meaning seen?
(a) As a game because there is no meaning.
(b) As important, but not necessary.
(c) As a primary motivational force.
(d) As less important than just accepting suffering.

7. What happened, according to the author, to the instinct to violence in the prisoners?
(a) It completely disappeared as they learned what being a victim was like.
(b) It grew as they saw more and more violence.
(c) They reacted more and more irritably when faced with violence.
(d) It decreased as they saw the harm violence made.

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

9. 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.

10. 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 mentions this to illustrate the ideas that he was so emotionally detached that he simply didn't care who was near him.
(c) He was happy, sitting near these corpses, thinking about the lives that he was able to save as a doctor.
(d) This was a space where he could find short periods of solitude.

11. What is the existential vacuum?
(a) A process that patients with anxiety problems use to return to normal.
(b) Lack of love in life.
(c) Lack of meaning in life.
(d) A kind of therapy for patients with existential issues.

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

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

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

15. What does the author have to do to satisfy the SS while filling in for the senior block warden?
(a) Create a full report on the medicines and other supplies that he used.
(b) Create full written reports on each of his patience.
(c) Keep the hut where sick inmates were located clean and orderly.
(d) Treat his patients to the best of his ability.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Looking back at the experience of living in a concentration camp, what does Frankl say is the most wonderful feeling?

3. Can logotherapy be used with neurotic individuals?

4. What caused former prisoners to feel bitterness?

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

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