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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Logotherapy in a Nutshell" (through page 157).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Frankl learn happened at Auschwitz after he left?
(a) There was a fire.
(b) Prisoners killed an SS officer.
(c) Cannibalism broke out.
(d) Frankl's friend broke his leg and was sent to the gas chamber.

2. What does the author claim hurts most about the physical blows from SS officers?
(a) The use of sticks to hit the prisoners.
(b) The way in which the SS officers did not speak to the prisoners before beating them.
(c) The way that the officers hit prisoners where they were already injured.
(d) The unfairness of the blows.

3. What happens when the author was outside of the camp fences burying dead bodies?
(a) An SS officer discovers his plot to escape, and comes out to beat him.
(b) A delegate from the Red Cross arrives to liberate the prisoners.
(c) He falls and breaks his leg.
(d) An earthquake destroys much of the camp.

4. What does Frankl believe explains the lack of sexual urge in the concentration camp?
(a) Fear.
(b) Shock.
(c) Stress.
(d) Undernourishment.

5. What is the author's tone of voice in this, the second section, of the book?
(a) He describes his life before living in the concentration camp in exaggeratedly nostalgic terms.
(b) He writes in clinical terms about prisoners mental states, as a doctor, not a former prisoner.
(c) He uses vulgar language to describe the hatred he still feels for the SS.
(d) He is now emotionally detached as he remembers his earlier emotional life.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Frankl respond to those who claimed they would commit suicide because "they had nothing to expect from life any more"?

2. What does Frankl suggest is the meaning of life?

3. How does the friend of the author, who "smuggled himself" into the author's hut, suggest that the prisoners try to stay alive?

4. Why does Frankl use the term logotherapy?

5. What is Frankl's opinion of love?

(see the answer key)

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