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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Experiences in a Concentration Camp" (through page 115).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the "delusion of reprieve"?
(a) The idea that many psychiatric patients have, that someone else is responsible for their own well-being.
(b) When a psychiatric patient splits their own personality in two, in order to avoid dealing with trauma.
(c) This is when a person deludes themself into believing that the worst is over, and the best is yet to come.
(d) The idea that a condemned person has the illusion just before death that he will be saved.

2. What happened, according to the author, to the instinct to violence in the prisoners?
(a) It completely disappeared as they learned what being a victim was like.
(b) It grew as they saw more and more violence.
(c) They reacted more and more irritably when faced with violence.
(d) It decreased as they saw the harm violence made.

3. In contrast to psychoanalysis, what does Frankl claim logotherapy is centered around?
(a) The right to dignity.
(b) Decision.
(c) Principle.
(d) The will to meaning.

4. How did Frankl himself realize he was free?
(a) When walking down the street, someone called his name, and he realized that he had his identity back.
(b) He saw a former fellow prisoner, and they realized how different they each looked.
(c) He returned to work, and was treated with respect by his clients for the first time in years.
(d) Walking alone in a field, he fell to his knees, recalling his former prayers for freedom.

5. For Frankl, what makes life meaningful and purposeful?
(a) Spiritual freedom.
(b) Humanity.
(c) Hope for the future.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Frankl think when he saw a group of convicts pass by?

2. Who does the author claim entertained thoughts of suicide in the concentration camp?

3. Frankl writes that suffering is unavoidable, so what matters most in the way that we respond to suffering?

4. Why did prisoners try to get to the center of the lines that workers formed in the morning?

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

(see the answer key)

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