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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. As Frankl and his fellow prisoners watched fellow prisoners, what could they calculate?
(a) Each other's lifespans.
(b) When they would be sent to the gas chambers.
(c) How much they had eaten.
(d) How badly they had been beaten.

2. Frankl writes that suffering is unavoidable, so what matters most in the way that we respond to suffering?
(a) Our love for one another.
(b) Our attitude.
(c) Our understanding of why we have been chosen to suffer.
(d) Our ability to understand our suffering as part of the story of our life.

3. What were the wishes and desires of prisoners?
(a) Food and comfort.
(b) Intellectual stimulation.
(c) Most of the men wished for intimacy.
(d) The strongest desire was often for more water than was readily available.

4. Looking back at the experience of living in a concentration camp, what does Frankl say is the most wonderful feeling?
(a) That so many survived.
(b) That there is no returning to camp.
(c) That the SS has been punished.
(d) That there is nothing left to fear -- except God.

5. Why does the author, after leaving camp, upon seeing an image of prisoners lying on their bunks, argue that these aren't horrible images?
(a) They are images of men that he knew, and all of them survived.
(b) They are images of sick prisoners who could stay in bed all day.
(c) They were images of people who had been spared the gas chambers.
(d) They are images of men from the Capo who had been demoted, and one of them had been in a position to be cruel to the author before this demotion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the author of the book travel in a "prison car" with small peepholes?

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

3. Who narrates this story?

4. What does Frankl argue happened in camp to "sensitive people used to a rich intellectual life"?

5. When Frankl was scheduled to be transported to another camp, what did the chief doctor do?

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