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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. How does Frankl write that love is interpreted in psychotherapy?
(a) As a phenomenon of sexual drives and instincts.
(b) As an unimportant aspect of life.
(c) As a troublesome part of life that often leads to difficulty.
(d) As the result of early family dynamics.

2. Why were camp inmates frightened of decisions?
(a) They worried about the consequences of excercising their own judgement.
(b) They were frightened of everything.
(c) They were scared of bringing attention to themselves.
(d) They believed that fate was one's master.

3. What question does Frankl claim that more and more doctors are confronted with?
(a) How can I act responsibly?
(b) Why do we all die?
(c) Where can I find love?
(d) What is life?

4. What does the author attempt to describe in this essay?
(a) The ways in which living in a concentration camp made prisoners stronger.
(b) The reason that the Nazis rose to power.
(c) The experience of living in a concentration camp.
(d) The last days of the war.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were dead men thrown on trains transporting prisoners to different concentration camps?

2. How many mental phases does the author claim that concentration camp prisoners go through?

3. What characterizes the second phase of a prisoner's mental state?

4. What happened to the senior block warden who had a dream that he would be free on March thirtieth?

5. What was the "most ghastly moment of the twenty-four hours of camp life"?

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