Man's Search for Meaning Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

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Man's Search for Meaning Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Case for a Tragic Optimism" (through page 179).

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 believes that they should be seen first by someone using a more dogmatic approach.
(c) Frankl writes that they, in particular, can benefit from logotherapy.
(d) Frankl writes that they should be treated medically.

2. What does Frankl argue hurts most about being hit?
(a) Displeasing authority.
(b) The injury upon injury.
(c) The reprimand that this represents.
(d) The humiliation.

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

4. What does Frankl term "pan-determinism".
(a) The psychoanalytic tendency to ignore that man makes some decisions.
(b) This is not a term used in the text.
(c) The tendency in therapy for patients to blame others rather than taking responsibility for their own lives.
(d) The idea that religious ideas are unimportant.

5. Why does the author, after leaving camp, upon seeing an image of prisoners lying on their bunks, argue that these aren't horrible images?
(a) They were images of people who had been spared the gas chambers.
(b) They are images of sick prisoners who could stay in bed all day.
(c) They are images of men from the Capo who had been demoted, and one of them had been in a position to be cruel to the author before this demotion.
(d) They are images of men that he knew, and all of them survived.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under what conditions does Frankl describe the SS beating prisoners?

2. Why did Frankl have to leave his shoes unlaced?

3. What kind of neuroses result from existential frustration?

4. How does Frankl believe that the young should respond to the old?

5. What is Frankl's tone in the section "The Case for a Tragic Optimism"?

(see the answer key)

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