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. What did the prisoners think of indoor work?
(a) It was the hardest work because it separated the prisoners.
(b) It was difficult because of the close watch the SS kept on prisoners inside.
(c) It was the worst work in the camp because of the constant contact with the SS.
(d) It was the best work in the camp, since it was in a sheltered room.

2. When was there a free fight among the prisoners?
(a) Before work began daily, when prisoners competed to be assigned the first jobs, as these were the least physically demanding.
(b) Before bed, when men and women competed for a place on a soft bed.
(c) Before meal time, when prisoners competed for one of the limited number of two-course meals.
(d) Before there was a shipment of the feeble and inable to work, when prisoners struggled not to be transported to another site.

3. Where does the author claim that most of the extermination took place?
(a) During mass transport, on the road to the camps.
(b) In small camps.
(c) In the big, famous camps.
(d) In camps in northern Europe.

4. What kind of outbreak affected the prisoners at the author's camp?
(a) Scarlet Fever.
(b) Typhus.
(c) Measles.
(d) A strong seasonal flu.

5. How does Frankl's understanding of individual meaning differ from that of Jean-Paul Sartre?
(a) Sartre believes that meaning is collective. Frankl believes it is individual.
(b) Sartre believes there is no meaning. Frankl believes it is crucial to life.
(c) For Sartre, it is invented. For Frankl it is found.
(d) Frankl took the idea from Sartre, and his definition is the same.

Short Answer Questions

1. What have people who have failed at their own suicide attempts shared with Frankl?

2. What study of his own does Frankl site to show the origins of a feeling of meaninglessness?

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

4. What kind of complex does the author write prisoners suffered from?

5. What is the name of the school of therapy that Frankl stands for?

(see the answer key)

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