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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 did Frankl learn happened at Auschwitz after he left?
(a) Frankl's friend broke his leg and was sent to the gas chamber.
(b) There was a fire.
(c) Prisoners killed an SS officer.
(d) Cannibalism broke out.

2. Why does Frankl believe that man behaves morally?
(a) Man decides to act morally.
(b) Man is instinctively moral and religious.
(c) Man has a moral drive.
(d) Most men are moral.

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

4. Were all foremen harsh and cruel?
(a) No, there were some who felt sorry for the prisoners.
(b) Very nearly all.
(c) Yes, this was always true.
(d) Yes, and the harshest tended to hold the most power.

5. Why does Dr. Frankl describe that he sits next to corpses "crawling with lice" but they did not bother him?
(a) He was happy, sitting near these corpses, thinking about the lives that he was able to save as a doctor.
(b) He was thankful, as he looked at these corpses, that he had not yet died.
(c) He mentions this to illustrate the ideas that he was so emotionally detached that he simply didn't care who was near him.
(d) This was a space where he could find short periods of solitude.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Frankl claim is the nature of meaning?

2. What did Frankl visit with the camp's chief doctor?

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

4. What job do those who greet the prisoners as they arrive to the concentration camp do?

5. Looking back at the experience of living in a concentration camp, what does Frankl say is the most wonderful feeling?

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