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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. What is Frankl's tone in "Basic Concepts of Logotherapy"?
(a) Angry.
(b) Serious and optimistic.
(c) Clinical.
(d) Sad and concerned.

2. What happens in the story of Death in Teheran?
(a) It is a story of a man who dies in Teheran, because of his own cruelty to his neighbors.
(b) It is the story of a tragic death by fire in Teheran, which shows that all of us must die in the end.
(c) Death threatens a servant who flees to Teheran, but Teheran is where Death plans to meet him.
(d) A man dies in Teheran, but faces his death bravely, and this inspires the theory of logotherapy.

3. What did the camp doctor give his prisoners after they were liberated?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Cigarettes.
(c) Magazines.
(d) Whiskey.

4. What were "mercy killings"?
(a) Nazi executions of the old, ill, and handicaped.
(b) Nazi killings of those who had been so experimented on that they could no longer survive long anyway.
(c) Nazi killings of pregnant women.
(d) Nazi killings of women who just gave birth.

5. What is "hyper-intention"?
(a) When an excess of energy creates a lack of meaning.
(b) This term is not used in the book.
(c) When an excess of intention makes the intended goal impossible.
(d) When a person is so intent on a goal that they are hyper.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author claim helped to detach prisoner's minds from their surroundings?

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

3. Why did prisoners try to get to the center of the lines that workers formed in the morning?

4. What happened to the senior block warden who had a dream that he would be free on March thirtieth?

5. What does Frankl argue happened when a diverse group of men was made to go hungry?

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