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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 kind of outbreak affected the prisoners at the author's camp?
(a) A strong seasonal flu.
(b) Measles.
(c) Typhus.
(d) Scarlet Fever.

2. Why did Frankl have to leave his shoes unlaced?
(a) He suffered from edema.
(b) He was given shoes that were too small.
(c) His socks, though warm, were the wrong size.
(d) He injured his ankle and had a hidden makeshift cast.

3. Why were dead men thrown on trains transporting prisoners to different concentration camps?
(a) If their number was on the list, their life was considered less important than their number.
(b) They were there to take up space, so that the prisoners would not have much room.
(c) This was a cruel joke of the SS who wanted to horrify the other riders.
(d) They were sent to spread disease to the other prisoners on the train.

4. What caused former prisoners to feel bitterness?
(a) The fact that they lost nearly all of their material wealth, and had to start anew.n
(b) That the SS also went free.
(c) The lack of response from people in prisoners' former hometowns.
(d) That they lost the company of their former prisonmates.

5. What does Frankl call "existential frustration"?
(a) The result of frustrating man's will to meaning.
(b) A frustration that results when suffering does not lead to meaning.
(c) A frustration that stems from the dull nature of existence.
(d) The kind of frustration that comes from having superficial relationships.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Frankl and his fellow prisoners watched fellow prisoners, what could they calculate?

2. What does Frankl write about the moral drive?

3. In the most difficult moments of our existence, what does Frankl suggest is the salvation of man?

4. What importance does Frankl give to the numbers assigned to prisoners?

5. What was the "most ghastly moment of the twenty-four hours of camp life"?

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