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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 did fellow prisoners respond when someone stole potatoes?
(a) When they realized this could be done, they began to organize to steal collectively.
(b) Nobody could figure out who he was.
(c) Rather than turn him in, they chose to be punished.
(d) They turned him in to the SS for extra soup.

2. What position does the author volunteer for?
(a) He volunteers to work as a personal secretary so that he can work inside.
(b) He volunteers to work as a doctor.
(c) He volunteers to move rocks so that he can leave the camp occasionally.
(d) He volunteers to clean up sewage so that a friend can be spared that job.

3. Before writing the second section of this text, had Frankl described logotherapy in writing?
(a) Yes, in a published article.
(b) Yes, in journals.
(c) Yes, in seventeen volumes in German.
(d) No.

4. What does Frankl write about the moral drive?
(a) It is an important drive.
(b) When it is not addressed serious, it can have serious consequences.
(c) It was ignored by Freud, but Frankl discovered it.
(d) No such drive can ever exist.

5. What does Frankl write about those with very difficult circumstances, such as being diagnosed with a terminal illness?
(a) He writes that these circumstances create martyrs.
(b) He believes that people can rise above his outward fate.
(c) He believes that those who are discreet and do not complain can die with dignity.
(d) Frankl believes that these circumstances would cause anyone to suffer terribly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of neuroses result from existential frustration?

2. What caused former prisoners to feel bitterness?

3. How does the existential vacuum manifest itself?

4. How does Frankl define the difference between how he and Jean-Paul Sartre define the meaning of our existence?

5. What is the existential vacuum?

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