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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. Where does the author of the book travel in a "prison car" with small peepholes?
(a) To Auschwitz.
(b) Past his hometown.
(c) To Switzerland.
(d) Through Germany.

2. Why does Frankl believe that man behaves morally?
(a) Man is instinctively moral and religious.
(b) Man decides to act morally.
(c) Man has a moral drive.
(d) Most men are moral.

3. When Frankl ran the neurological department of a general hospital, what did he say he witnessed?
(a) He saw that "patients who listen to their own inner voice end up happier and healthier."
(b) His patient's capactity to "turn their predicaments into human achievements."
(c) "That suffering is only momentary, but the attitudes that lead to happiness can last a lifetime."
(d) That "suffering is a choice."

4. What does Frankl term "a tragic optimism"?
(a) A kind of optimism tempered by the understanding of the horrors that humans are capable of.
(b) An optimism, despite the knowledge of what happened in the concentration camps.
(c) An optimism in the face of tragedy.
(d) An optimism despite the tragedies that occur during times of war.

5. What does Frankl argue is the meaning of life?
(a) Humility.
(b) Love.
(c) Service.
(d) It varies.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What concentration camp does the author describe traveling to?

3. What does Frankl write about the moral drive?

4. Who greets the prisoners upon their arrival at the concentration camp?

5. Looking back at the experience of living in a concentration camp, what does Frankl say is the most wonderful feeling?

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