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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are noo-dynamics?
(a) The dynamics between existential boredom and meaning.
(b) Family dynamics in which spiritual issues play a role.
(c) The tension between a victim and a victimizer.
(d) A tension between who a person is and who they can become.

2. How does Frankl write that Freudian psychotherapy deals with spiritual issues?
(a) Spiritual issues are not dealt with in psychotherapy.
(b) They are dealt with directly, and with respect for the difficulty that many patients have with these issues.
(c) Frankl writes that spirituality is dealt with by Freudian psychologists as a central issue in life, but it should be addressed with religious leaders.
(d) They are not dealt with directly, but they are seen as having instinctual roots.

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

4. When does the third phase of the prisoners' psychology begin?
(a) Once they are no longer afraid.
(b) After all hope is lost.
(c) At liberation.
(d) After depression.

5. How important is the idea of individual choice for Frankl?
(a) For Frankl, individual choice can preserve a vestige of spiritual freedom.
(b) Frankl considers this unimportant and inconsequential to happiness.
(c) Frankl understands individual choice as a myth, since the concentration camps show that we react profoundly by stress.
(d) Frankl believes that man is an accidental product of his environment.

6. How did Frankl himself realize he was free?
(a) He saw a former fellow prisoner, and they realized how different they each looked.
(b) He returned to work, and was treated with respect by his clients for the first time in years.
(c) When walking down the street, someone called his name, and he realized that he had his identity back.
(d) Walking alone in a field, he fell to his knees, recalling his former prayers for freedom.

7. 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 went mad.
(d) They found they enjoyed their own company much more than the company of those who had never experienced life in a concentration camp.

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

9. 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.

10. What kind of neuroses result from existential frustration?
(a) Depressive neuroses.
(b) Anxiety neuroses.
(c) Existential neuroses.
(d) Noogenic neuroses.

11. Why does Frankl believe that man behaves morally?
(a) Man is instinctively moral and religious.
(b) Man decides to act morally.
(c) Man has a moral drive.
(d) Most men are moral.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. After the liberation of the camp, why does the SS take most of the remaining prisoners?

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