Man's Search for Meaning Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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Man's Search for Meaning Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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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. How important is the idea of individual choice for Frankl?
(a) For Frankl, individual choice can preserve a vestige of spiritual freedom.
(b) Frankl considers this unimportant and inconsequential to happiness.
(c) Frankl believes that man is an accidental product of his environment.
(d) Frankl understands individual choice as a myth, since the concentration camps show that we react profoundly by stress.

2. How does Frankl define the difference between how he and Jean-Paul Sartre define the meaning of our existence?
(a) While Frankl argues that the meaning of life is love, Sartre believes that the meaning of life has no connection to others.
(b) While Frankl considers meaning important in life, Sartre only considers it interesting, but not essential.
(c) For Frankl, we find our meaning, For Sartre, we invent it.
(d) Both agree that meaning is central to life, but Sartre believes it is important in how others see us.

3. What does the author attempt to describe in this essay?
(a) The ways in which living in a concentration camp made prisoners stronger.
(b) The experience of living in a concentration camp.
(c) The last days of the war.
(d) The reason that the Nazis rose to power.

4. For Frankl, what makes life meaningful and purposeful?
(a) Spiritual freedom.
(b) Hope for the future.
(c) Love.
(d) Humanity.

5. What does Frankl claim about what man makes of himself?
(a) That his circumstances lead to it.
(b) That it is the result of his childhood.
(c) That it is the cause of suffering.
(d) That he himself creates it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Frankl was sent to another camp after his stay in Auschwitz. Why were the prisoners there pleased?

2. What does Frankl believe explains the lack of sexual urge in the concentration camp?

3. What were the wishes and desires of prisoners?

4. Who does the author describe smoking in the concentration camps?

5. What is the "delusion of reprieve"?

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