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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. Was there art in the concentration camp?
(a) No, the prisoners were far too depressed to care for art.
(b) Yes, there were many prisoners (including Frankl) who attempted literature.
(c) No, there was no such thing as the rules prohibiting self-expression were strict.
(d) Yes, there were gatherings with songs, poems, jokes, and some satire.

2. How were prisoners identified?
(a) By the name of the place they lived before being captured.
(b) By number.
(c) By name.
(d) By the room they were assigned.

3. What does Frankl write is the aim of traditional Freudian psychotherapy?
(a) Relieving pain.
(b) Creating a vision for the future
(c) Recalling the past.
(d) Restoring pleasure and happiness.

4. What does Frankl suggest happens to "self-centeredness" in logotherapy?
(a) It is made evident.
(b) It is fostered in order to build confidence.
(c) It is used to show the patient how their thought pattern should change.
(d) It is broken up.

5. What caused former prisoners to feel bitterness?
(a) The lack of response from people in prisoners' former hometowns.
(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) That they lost the company of their former prisonmates.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Frankl define the difference between how he and Jean-Paul Sartre define the meaning of our existence?

2. How do psychiatrists expect people to react in abnormal situations?

3. After the liberation of the camp, why does the SS take most of the remaining prisoners?

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

5. How does logotherapy deal with spiritual issues?

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