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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 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 uses vulgar language to describe the hatred he still feels for the SS.
(c) He writes in clinical terms about prisoners mental states, as a doctor, not a former prisoner.
(d) He is now emotionally detached as he remembers his earlier emotional life.

2. What does Frankl believe makes a person "worthy of his sufferings or not"?
(a) Their ability to remove desire from their lives.
(b) Their "focus on love," and their "lack of consideration for their own suffering."
(c) Whether "he makes use of" or forgoes "the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him."
(d) Their ability to "focus on the positive aspects of their past."

3. What did Frankl try to teach a former prisoner who felt that he could trample crops in a field because he had been through so much himself?
(a) "Morality is measured in small moments."
(b) "No one has the right to do wrong."
(c) "The way that you behave when nobody is watching speaks loudly of you."
(d) "By respecting nature, we learn to respect ourselves."

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

5. What happened, according to the author, to the instinct to violence in the prisoners?
(a) They reacted more and more irritably when faced with violence.
(b) It decreased as they saw the harm violence made.
(c) It grew as they saw more and more violence.
(d) It completely disappeared as they learned what being a victim was like.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After the liberation of the camp, why does the SS take most of the remaining prisoners?

3. Frankl writes that suffering is unavoidable, so what matters most in the way that we respond to suffering?

4. What did prisoners often discuss when they had a free moment?

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

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