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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 hurts most about being hit?
(a) The injury upon injury.
(b) The humiliation.
(c) Displeasing authority.
(d) The reprimand that this represents.
2. Who does the author describe smoking in the concentration camps?
(a) Railway workers.
(b) The Capo and the suicidal.
(c) The prisoners who worked in the kitchen.
(d) Prison doctors.
3. Why does the author, himself a concentration camp survivor, write, "We know: the best of us did not return"?
(a) The author claims that this is the case because he deeply misses his family members who died at Auschwitz.
(b) The author feels that the most defiant prisoners, those who stood up to the SS officers, were immediately killed.
(c) The author believes this because the prisoners kept themselves alive by brutally and dishonestly fighting for their existence.
(d) This quote is taken from a paragraph in which the author writes that the humblest prisoners were the earliest to be killed by the SS officers.
4. In logotherapy, how is the search for meaning seen?
(a) As less important than just accepting suffering.
(b) As a primary motivational force.
(c) As important, but not necessary.
(d) As a game because there is no meaning.
5. Who narrates this story?
(a) A woman who claims to have grown up with Hitler.
(b) A woman who hid Jews in her home to save them from the concentration camps.
(c) A concentration camp survivor.
(d) A former Nazi.
Short Answer Questions
1. When the author arrived to the concentration camp, the group of arrivals were separated into two lines. What happened to these two groups?
2. What does Frankl claim is the most important part of suffering?
3. What does Frankl believe explains the lack of sexual urge in the concentration camp?
4. When a journalist asked Frankl to describe logotherapy in a sentence, how did he respond?
5. What were the wishes and desires of prisoners?
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