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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Can logotherapy be used with neurotic individuals?
(a) Frankl argues that they should not use logotherapy until they are treated medically.
(b) Frankl writes that they should be treated medically.
(c) Frankl writes that they, in particular, can benefit from logotherapy.
(d) Frankl believes that they should be seen first by someone using a more dogmatic approach.

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

3. How does the existential vacuum manifest itself?
(a) Boredom.
(b) A sense of guilt.
(c) Anxiety.
(d) Depression.

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

5. What does Frankl write about those with very difficult circumstances, such as being diagnosed with a terminal illness?
(a) He believes that those who are discreet and do not complain can die with dignity.
(b) He believes that people can rise above his outward fate.
(c) Frankl believes that these circumstances would cause anyone to suffer terribly.
(d) He writes that these circumstances create martyrs.

6. 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 found they enjoyed their own company much more than the company of those who had never experienced life in a concentration camp.
(c) They went mad.
(d) They ate large amounts and spoke at length.

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

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

9. What did Frankl speak to his fellow prisoners about when their morale was low?
(a) Love.
(b) Death.
(c) Hygiene.
(d) Hope.

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

11. How does Frankl respond to those who claimed they would commit suicide because "they had nothing to expect from life any more"?
(a) "Man was made to suffer, but there is meaning in suffering. With great humility this is possible."
(b) "Happiness can still be achieved."
(c) "You must truly listen to your own inner voice, and you will find that there is much more that you can expect."
(d) "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us."

12. Before writing the second section of this text, had Frankl described logotherapy in writing?
(a) Yes, in journals.
(b) Yes, in a published article.
(c) No.
(d) Yes, in seventeen volumes in German.

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

14. What does Frankl argue man determines about his life?
(a) Man decides if he will listen to his inner voice.
(b) Man decides what he will be.
(c) Man decides whether or not to suffer.
(d) Man decides whether or not he will live in love.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the more "prominent" prisoners, the Capo, develop in camp?

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

3. How did Frankl himself realize he was free?

4. What is Frankl's tone in "Basic Concepts of Logotherapy"?

5. What role does suffering play in life, according to Frankl?

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