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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 believe humans have the capacity to do with something negative?
(a) Understand how to behave with dignity despite it.
(b) Turn it into something constructive.
(c) Plan to move beyond it.
(d) Turn it into something fun, and make it a source of happiness.

2. During the time that the author spent in concentration camps, what does he describe as his main work?
(a) Digging and laying tracks for railway lines.
(b) Preparing bodies for burial.
(c) Working in the kitchen.
(d) Cleaning the guards' living and work quarters.

3. What does Frankl claim that happy people do better than unhappy people?
(a) Frankl claims that happy people cope with suffering better than unhappy people.
(b) Frankl claims that they have a more realistic view of life.
(c) They have more hope.
(d) They have more physical strength.

4. What did Frankl try to reconstruct, that he lost when he arrived to Auschwitz?
(a) A sling for his injured arm.
(b) A manuscript.
(c) The inserts in his shoes.
(d) A ring.

5. What is the existential vacuum?
(a) A kind of therapy for patients with existential issues.
(b) Lack of meaning in life.
(c) A process that patients with anxiety problems use to return to normal.
(d) Lack of love in life.

Short Answer Questions

1. How were prisoners identified?

2. What are the ways that logotherapy believes meaning in life can be found?

3. How does Frankl write that love is interpreted in psychotherapy?

4. When a journalist asked Frankl to describe logotherapy in a sentence, how did he respond?

5. What choice does the author claim that people can control in difficult circumstances?

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