Q 01/05

In the final year of his life, Carl Rogers was nominated for which honor for his dialogue work in South Africa?

A) Nobel Peace Prize

B) Templeton Prize

C) Presidential Medal of Freedom

D) Congressional Gold Medal

Answer · why

A) Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize nomination recognized workshops that sat bitterly opposed groups down together in divided societies. Rogers died in February 198...

Q 02/05

Journey into Self, a 1968 documentary of Carl Rogers leading a 16-hour group therapy session, won which honor?

A) A Peabody Award

B) An Emmy Award

C) An Academy Award

D) A Golden Globe Award

Answer · why

C) An Academy Award

An Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature went to the film, which followed eight strangers through one marathon session. Rogers led the group with...

Q 03/05

Carl Rogers illustrated the drive to grow with which vegetable, sprouting pale shoots in his family's dark cellar?

A) Parsnips

B) Potatoes

C) Turnips

D) Carrots

Answer · why

B) Potatoes

Potatoes stored for winter sent thin white shoots toward a distant window, and Rogers never forgot the sight. He used it to picture his actualizing te...

Q 04/05

From the late 1950s, Carl Rogers sat on the board of the Human Ecology Fund, a research body secretly financed by whom?

A) The FBI

B) The US Navy

C) The Pentagon

D) The CIA

Answer · why

D) The CIA

The CIA used the fund as a front to channel grants to social scientists during the Cold War. Rogers later said he and other experts were also asked ho...

Q 05/05

Which comedian from Carl Rogers's hometown caricatured his style of therapy in a 1970s sitcom about a psychologist?

A) Alan Alda

B) Dick Van Dyke

C) Redd Foxx

D) Bob Newhart

Answer · why

D) Bob Newhart

Bob Newhart was born in the same Illinois village as Rogers, and the mild, attentive therapist he played on The Bob Newhart Show gently sent up the Ro...