Man's Search for Meaning Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

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Man's Search for Meaning Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Logotherapy in a Nutshell" (through page 157).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What job did Frankl do in freezing temperatures out of doors?
(a) He worked on icky train tracks.
(b) He worked in the sewage pits.
(c) He worked on the roof of the prison director's building.
(d) He worked in an open-air hospital.

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

3. What is Frankl's tone in "Basic Concepts of Logotherapy"?
(a) Sad and concerned.
(b) Clinical.
(c) Angry.
(d) Serious and optimistic.

4. Why did the Capo in the author's working party do him favors?
(a) The author was his doctor before he was put in prison.
(b) This Capo favored him because they were from the same hometown.
(c) The author aided him in finding the strongest men to work on his team.
(d) The author listened to his marital problems and offered psychotherapeutic advice.

5. How does Frankl's understanding of individual meaning differ from that of Jean-Paul Sartre?
(a) For Sartre, it is invented. For Frankl it is found.
(b) Frankl took the idea from Sartre, and his definition is the same.
(c) Sartre believes that meaning is collective. Frankl believes it is individual.
(d) Sartre believes there is no meaning. Frankl believes it is crucial to life.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were camp inmates frightened of decisions?

2. Why does Frankl use the term logotherapy?

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

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

5. What does the author claim hurts most about the physical blows from SS officers?

(see the answer key)

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