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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 does Frankl argue happened in camp to "sensitive people used to a rich intellectual life"?
(a) They had difficulty adapting to not being heard.
(b) They fell ill more frequently.
(c) They were beaten more harshly.
(d) The damage to their inner life was less.

2. What is the name of the school of therapy that Frankl stands for?
(a) Behavioral therapy.
(b) Psychotherapy.
(c) Hypno-therapy.
(d) Logotherapy.

3. After the liberation of the camp, why does the SS take most of the remaining prisoners?
(a) To send them to Switzerland.
(b) To kill them.
(c) To take them to another camp.
(d) To torture them so that they would not speak of their experiences.

4. What does Frankl use as an example of "what is at stake" in our use of logotherapy?
(a) Hiroshima.
(b) His own survival.
(c) Stories from the prisoners in Illinois.
(d) The war.

5. What job did Frankl do in freezing temperatures out of doors?
(a) He worked in an open-air hospital.
(b) He worked on icky train tracks.
(c) He worked in the sewage pits.
(d) He worked on the roof of the prison director's building.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does logotherapy "conceive" of conscience?

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

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

4. When comparing logotherapy and Freudian psychotherapy, what does Frankl write is the focus of logotherapy?

5. How were prisoners identified?

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