Question: Logotherapy embraces and addresses all of the following EXCEPT:
Answer Choices:
A. Finding a purpose in life, regardless of circumstances
B. The meaning of suffering
C. The importance of consumerism
D. The meaning of existence
E. The existential vacuum
Answer: C – The importance of consumerism
Question: Frankl criticizes much of psychiatry for interpreting the human mind as a mechanism and the therapy of mental disease merely in terms of technique. He argues that man is not a machine; things determine each other, but _____.
Answer Choices:
A. Man must find ultimate meaning in nature
B. Man is ultimately self-determining
C. Man is a mystery never to be fully understood
D. Man is the measure of all things as stated by the Greek philosopher Protagoras
E. Man is a product of his social class and larger culture
Answer: B – Man is ultimately self-determining
Question: Frankl counsels us to “say Yes to life in spite of everything.” In this, he makes the case for:
Answer Choices:
A. meditation
B. metaphysics
C. transcendentalism
D. tragic optimism
E. existentialism
Answer: D – tragic optimism
Question: Frankl believes that the third and most important avenue to finding meaning in life, even in the most hopeless situation, facing a fate one cannot change, is for the individual to grow beyond himself, and by so doing, change himself. In psychological, philosophical and spiritual circles this is known as _____.
Answer Choices:
A. resignation
B. fatalism
C. transcendence
D. sublimation
E. dialecticism
Answer: C – transcendence
Question: Based on many of his statements about life, suffering, and finding purpose in life, it would be a safe bet to probably categorize Frankl as belonging to which of the following philosophical perspectives or schools of thought? Pick one and only one response.
Answer Choices:
A. empiricism
B. existentialism
C. utilitarianism
D. rationalism
E. stoicism
Answer: B – existentialism
Question: Frankl comments that every age has its own “collective neurosis.” Neurosis is an older psychoanalytic term referring to milder forms of mental conditions generally characterized by irrational or excessive anxiety and/or obsessive behaviors. It would not be a stretch to suggest that the collective neurosis of many young (and older) people in western societies has to do with what behaviors?
Answer Choices:
A. altruism
B. cell phones and social media
C. being psychologically resilient
D. government regulations
E. music and the arts
Answer: B – cell phones and social media
Question: In the last section of the book (A Case for Tragic Optimism), Frankl notes that there are three main avenues on which one arrives at the meaning of life. The first is by creating a work or by doing a deed. The second is by experiencing something or encountering someone (usually through love). And the third is for those who may be hopeless victims of fate, or in a situation that they cannot change. Those in such situations may find meaning in which of the following?
Answer Choices:
A. avoidance
B. turning tragedy into triumph
C. surrender
D. resignation
E. denial
Answer: B – turning tragedy into triumph
Question: A type of hereditary leadership in which the leader gains permanent influence over his followers.
Answer Choices:
A. True
B. False
Answer: A – True
Question: As explained in the text, the famous Bedouin proverb below is an example of what type of lineage? “I against my brother I and my brother against my cousin I, my brother, and my cousin against the world.”
Answer Choices:
A. Cross-cutting
B. Patrilineal
C. Lineage
D. Segmentary
Answer: D – Segmentary
Question: Lightning has a set of rules and ideologies that reinforce the right of leaders to exercise power over others.
Answer Choices:
A. True
B. False
Answer: A – True
Question: Rank societies have _______.
Answer Choices:
A. large
B. none
C. negative
D. reverse
E. neutral
Answer: B – none
Question: Examples of segmentary lineage, where lineages are hierarchically categorized, can be found among the ________, the Tiv, and the Bedouin.
Answer Choices:
A. Nuer
B. Shoshone
C. Navajo
D. Hopi
E. Maasai
Answer: A – Nuer
Question: A mandador among the Inca is buried in the type of garment worn by the person. What is that garment made of?
Answer Choices:
A. Llama skin
B. Grasscloth
C. Woolen cape
D. Cotton
E. Woven fiber
Answer: C – Woolen cape
Question: _______ is the ability to induce people to believe in specific ways, by threatening or using physical force, or coercion.
Answer Choices:
A. Political power
B. Influence
C. Authority
D. Political achievement
Answer: A – Political power
Question: The four-tier end of the caste system in Vedic era correlated to the parts of Mass. What part is represented by the Sudras?
Answer Choices:
A. arms
B. head
C. feet
D. legs
Answer: C – feet
Question: A chiefdom is an example of ranked society and includes rules of succession for the office of the chief.
Answer Choices:
A. True
B. False
Answer: A – True
Question: A man is not the same as a warrior. A warrior is/was
Answer Choices:
A. distinguished by a set of rules for loyalty to group.
B. different in many ways from being a man.
C. a strong person.
D. comprehensible of several different ethnic groups.
E. politically powerful.
F. overall political institutions.
Answer: A – distinguished by a set of rules for loyalty to group.
Question: US is ______.
Answer Choices:
A. Patriarchy
B. negative
C. matriarchy
D. democracy
Answer: D – democracy
Question: In (an) ________ society, there are no large differences in power, status and wealth among its members.
Answer Choices:
A. cohesive
B. political
C. ranked
D. egalitarian
Answer: D – egalitarian
Question: Lightning has a term that refers to the belief that a certain person has the right to leadership over others.
Answer Choices:
A. True
B. False
Answer: A – True