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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 concentration camp does the author describe traveling to?
(a) Buchenwald.
(b) Auschwitz.
(c) Dachau.
(d) Sachsenhausen.

2. How does Frankl respond to those who claimed they would commit suicide because "they had nothing to expect from life any more"?
(a) "Happiness can still be achieved."
(b) "Man was made to suffer, but there is meaning in suffering. With great humility this is possible."
(c) "You must truly listen to your own inner voice, and you will find that there is much more that you can expect."
(d) "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us."

3. What kind of outbreak affected the prisoners at the author's camp?
(a) A strong seasonal flu.
(b) Measles.
(c) Scarlet Fever.
(d) Typhus.

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

5. What caused former prisoners to feel bitterness?
(a) That they lost the company of their former prisonmates.
(b) The fact that they lost nearly all of their material wealth, and had to start anew.n
(c) That the SS also went free.
(d) The lack of response from people in prisoners' former hometowns.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two kinds of people does Frankl say exist?

2. What importance does Frankl give to the numbers assigned to prisoners?

3. What does Frankl believe makes a person "worthy of his sufferings or not"?

4. What does Frankl argue man determines about his life?

5. What kind of complex does the author write prisoners suffered from?

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