Man's Search for Meaning Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

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Man's Search for Meaning Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Case for a Tragic Optimism" (through page 179).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Were all foremen harsh and cruel?
(a) Yes, and the harshest tended to hold the most power.
(b) Yes, this was always true.
(c) No, there were some who felt sorry for the prisoners.
(d) Very nearly all.

2. What does Frankl term "pan-determinism".
(a) The tendency in therapy for patients to blame others rather than taking responsibility for their own lives.
(b) The idea that religious ideas are unimportant.
(c) This is not a term used in the text.
(d) The psychoanalytic tendency to ignore that man makes some decisions.

3. What happened when prisoners, who were pressured for years, suddenly released that pressure?
(a) Many enjoyed incredible amounts of exercise and great amounts of energy.
(b) They went mad.
(c) They found they enjoyed their own company much more than the company of those who had never experienced life in a concentration camp.
(d) They ate large amounts and spoke at length.

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

5. Why does Frankl use the term logotherapy?
(a) Logo means "love" in Greek.
(b) Logo means "suffering" in Latin.
(c) A fellow prisoner coined the term, and Frankl uses it as a homage to him.
(d) Logo means "meaning" in Greek.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the author decide not to try to escape the concentration camp?

2. What kind of event does the author attend with the camp's chief officer?

3. What does Frankl term supra-meaning?

4. When was there a free fight among the prisoners?

5. What kind of neuroses result from existential frustration?

(see the answer key)

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