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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 does Frankl term supra-meaning?
(a) A level of understanding meaning that transcends the individual and can only be understood within groups.
(b) He does not use this term.
(c) An ultimate meaning that transcends man's intellectual capabilities.
(d) A spiritual understanding that transcends our ability to describe it in words.
2. How does the friend of the author, who "smuggled himself" into the author's hut, suggest that the prisoners try to stay alive?
(a) He recommends they shave, to look younger, and that they avoid showing discomfort to appear more fit.
(b) He recommends that they sleep every moment that they get a chance, to be energetic in their work.
(c) He suggests that they never speak around SS officers.
(d) He offers them tips to get more food at meal time.
3. Can logotherapy be used with neurotic individuals?
(a) Frankl writes that they, in particular, can benefit from logotherapy.
(b) Frankl writes that they should be treated medically.
(c) Frankl believes that they should be seen first by someone using a more dogmatic approach.
(d) Frankl argues that they should not use logotherapy until they are treated medically.
4. Under what conditions does Frankl describe the SS beating prisoners?
(a) At the direction of the SS authorities, prisoners were beaten.
(b) When they spoke before being spoken to.
(c) At the slightest provocation or for no reason at all.
(d) When they were injurred and unable to work.
5. How does Frankl define the difference between how he and Jean-Paul Sartre define the meaning of our existence?
(a) Both agree that meaning is central to life, but Sartre believes it is important in how others see us.
(b) While Frankl considers meaning important in life, Sartre only considers it interesting, but not essential.
(c) While Frankl argues that the meaning of life is love, Sartre believes that the meaning of life has no connection to others.
(d) For Frankl, we find our meaning, For Sartre, we invent it.
Short Answer Questions
1. Looking back at the experience of living in a concentration camp, what does Frankl say is the most wonderful feeling?
2. What does Frankl term "pan-determinism".
3. How did fellow prisoners respond when someone stole potatoes?
4. Who narrates this story?
5. When Frankl was scheduled to be transported to another camp, what did the chief doctor do?
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