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

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

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Experiences in a Concentration Camp" (through page 72).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the "delusion of reprieve"?
(a) This is when a person deludes themself into believing that the worst is over, and the best is yet to come.
(b) When a psychiatric patient splits their own personality in two, in order to avoid dealing with trauma.
(c) The idea that many psychiatric patients have, that someone else is responsible for their own well-being.
(d) The idea that a condemned person has the illusion just before death that he will be saved.

2. How did Frankl respond to an SS officer who called him a pig, and asked him what his profession was?
(a) He refused to speak.
(b) He argued that it was none of his business, and then tried to hit him.
(c) He said he had been a psychiatrist, and understood perfectly what his issues were.
(d) He told him he was a doctor who did charitable work.

3. How many mental phases does the author claim that concentration camp prisoners go through?
(a) Four phases.
(b) Two separate phases.
(c) Three distinct phases.
(d) Ten distinct phases.

4. Why does the author, himself a concentration camp survivor, write, "We know: the best of us did not return"?
(a) The author feels that the most defiant prisoners, those who stood up to the SS officers, were immediately killed.
(b) The author claims that this is the case because he deeply misses his family members who died at Auschwitz.
(c) The author believes this because the prisoners kept themselves alive by brutally and dishonestly fighting for their existence.
(d) This quote is taken from a paragraph in which the author writes that the humblest prisoners were the earliest to be killed by the SS officers.

5. Who narrates this story?
(a) A former Nazi.
(b) A concentration camp survivor.
(c) A woman who hid Jews in her home to save them from the concentration camps.
(d) A woman who claims to have grown up with Hitler.

Short Answer Questions

1. How were normal reactions hastened among the workers charged with removing sewage?

2. What happens in the story of Death in Teheran?

3. How did Frankl earn the favor of "The Murderous Capo"?

4. Were all foremen harsh and cruel?

5. What was the main characteristic of the second phase of the prisoner's mental life?

(see the answer key)

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