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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. Under what conditions does Frankl describe the SS beating prisoners?
(a) When they spoke before being spoken to.
(b) At the slightest provocation or for no reason at all.
(c) When they were injurred and unable to work.
(d) At the direction of the SS authorities, prisoners were beaten.

2. What is Frankl's opinion of love?
(a) True service to another human being leads to a meaningful life.
(b) It is essential to a happy life.
(c) It is a great way to find meaning.
(d) It is the only way to grasp another human being.

3. When comparing logotherapy and Freudian psychotherapy, what does Frankl write is the focus of logotherapy?
(a) The past.
(b) The interior life.
(c) Suffering.
(d) The future.

4. Why does Dr. Frankl describe that he sits next to corpses "crawling with lice" but they did not bother him?
(a) He was thankful, as he looked at these corpses, that he had not yet died.
(b) This was a space where he could find short periods of solitude.
(c) He mentions this to illustrate the ideas that he was so emotionally detached that he simply didn't care who was near him.
(d) He was happy, sitting near these corpses, thinking about the lives that he was able to save as a doctor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Frankl argue is the meaning of life?

2. What does the author have to do to satisfy the SS while filling in for the senior block warden?

3. What did Frankl learn happened at Auschwitz after he left?

4. Frankl cites a study of students at Johns Hopkins University. What did the students cite as important to them?

5. What does Frankl write is the aim of traditional Freudian psychotherapy?

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