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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. How were normal reactions hastened among the workers charged with removing sewage?
(a) The officers in charge would "reward" those who finished their work quickly by forcing them to clean raw sewage, one of the worst jobs at the concentration camp.
(b) The officers used loud noises to shock the prisoners as they removed the sewage.
(c) The Capo would threaten them if they did not quickly stomp in the sewage to clean the latrines and remove sewage.
(d) The Capo would strike them if they attempted to wipe off the sewage that splashed on their faces.
2. What kind of complex does the author write prisoners suffered from?
(a) An Inferiority complex.
(b) A Marytyr complex.
(c) A Napoleon complex.
(d) A Persecution complex.
3. What does Frankl believe humans have the capacity to do with something negative?
(a) Understand how to behave with dignity despite it.
(b) Turn it into something fun, and make it a source of happiness.
(c) Plan to move beyond it.
(d) Turn it into something constructive.
4. Frankl cites studies in which aggression is built up between groups of Boy Scouts. How were researchers successful in causing the aggression to subside?
(a) Yelling.
(b) Having a meeting in which the boys themselves write new rules.
(c) Offering a common treat to all the boys.
(d) Joining the groups in a common cause.
5. What does Frankl call "the existential vacuum"?
(a) For Frankl, this is a feeling of meaninglessness and emptiness.
(b) For Frankl, this is when a young person cannot decide what fate they would like.
(c) Frankl writes that this is a problem of being unable to face suffering with dignity.
(d) This is, for Frankl, when people cannot face their own existence.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does logotherapy "conceive" of conscience?
2. When a journalist asked Frankl to describe logotherapy in a sentence, how did he respond?
3. How important is the idea of individual choice for Frankl?
4. Looking back at the experience of living in a concentration camp, what does Frankl say is the most wonderful feeling?
5. Why does Frankl claim that people use drugs?
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