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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 did fellow prisoners respond when someone stole potatoes?
(a) Nobody could figure out who he was.
(b) When they realized this could be done, they began to organize to steal collectively.
(c) Rather than turn him in, they chose to be punished.
(d) They turned him in to the SS for extra soup.

2. What does Frankl call "existential frustration"?
(a) A frustration that stems from the dull nature of existence.
(b) The kind of frustration that comes from having superficial relationships.
(c) The result of frustrating man's will to meaning.
(d) A frustration that results when suffering does not lead to meaning.

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

4. What job do those who greet the prisoners as they arrive to the concentration camp do?
(a) They decide which women are not strong enough to work.
(b) They take charge of the belongings of the new arrivals.
(c) They separate the sick from the fit.
(d) They find prisoners who are willing to lie about their identities.

5. What does Frankl argue happened in camp to "sensitive people used to a rich intellectual life"?
(a) They had difficulty adapting to not being heard.
(b) They fell ill more frequently.
(c) They were beaten more harshly.
(d) The damage to their inner life was less.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the prisoners think of indoor work?

2. How were the Capos chosen?

3. Who does Frankl quote (more than once) as writing: "He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how."

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

5. How important is the idea of individual choice for Frankl?

(see the answer key)

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