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 are "premium coupons"?
(a) Raffle tickets given to the SS guards to award them things previously owned by the prisoners.
(b) These came from the construction firm that hired workers through the prison, and could be used to buy days off work.
(c) These came from the construction firm that hired the workers from the prison, and could be exchanged for cigarettes.
(d) These were certificates from the SS guards, and were awarded to prisoners who arrived to work before the morning bell rang.

2. Why does Dr. Frankl describe that he sits next to corpses "crawling with lice" but they did not bother him?
(a) This was a space where he could find short periods of solitude.
(b) He was thankful, as he looked at these corpses, that he had not yet died.
(c) He was happy, sitting near these corpses, thinking about the lives that he was able to save as a doctor.
(d) He mentions this to illustrate the ideas that he was so emotionally detached that he simply didn't care who was near him.

3. Who is Father Maximilian Kolbe?
(a) A priest who did work that inspired Frankl.
(b) A man that Frankl writes embodied dignity.
(c) An American priest who protested the war.
(d) A cannonized saint who died at Auschwitz.

4. What does the author have to do to satisfy the SS while filling in for the senior block warden?
(a) Create full written reports on each of his patience.
(b) Create a full report on the medicines and other supplies that he used.
(c) Treat his patients to the best of his ability.
(d) Keep the hut where sick inmates were located clean and orderly.

5. Why did prisoners try to get to the center of the lines that workers formed in the morning?
(a) They could neither be punished for arriving early nor beaten for arriving late.
(b) To avoid being seen by the SS.
(c) For the warmth in the center of the group.
(d) Large blocks of people were always selected from the center, so friends could remain together.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when the author was outside of the camp fences burying dead bodies?

2. What does Frankl claim is the most important part of suffering?

3. How does logotherapy "conceive" of conscience?

4. What does Frankl term "pan-determinism".

5. What is the author's tone of voice in this, the second section, of the book?

(see the answer key)

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