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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 the author have to do to satisfy the SS while filling in for the senior block warden?
(a) Create a full report on the medicines and other supplies that he used.
(b) Keep the hut where sick inmates were located clean and orderly.
(c) Create full written reports on each of his patience.
(d) Treat his patients to the best of his ability.

2. What does Frankl argue hurts most about being hit?
(a) The injury upon injury.
(b) The humiliation.
(c) The reprimand that this represents.
(d) Displeasing authority.

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

4. What does Frankl claim is the nature of meaning?
(a) Love is the true meaning of life.
(b) It is found in suffering, like when he was a prisoner.
(c) It does not emerge from existence, but confronting existence.
(d) It is not important because nothing has true meaning.

5. How do psychiatrists expect people to react in abnormal situations?
(a) They expect mentally healthy people to have balanced reactions to such situations.
(b) They expect that a normal person in an abnormal situation will demonstrate severe stress.
(c) They expect strong reactions.
(d) They expect an abnormal reaction according to the person's degree of normality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What rule did the author establish for himself in Auschwitz?

2. What kind of statue does Frankl argue should compliment the Statue of Liberty?

3. What possession does the author of this book try to keep after arriving to the concentration camp?

4. As Frankl and his fellow prisoners watched fellow prisoners, what could they calculate?

5. Why does Frankl believe that man behaves morally?

(see the answer key)

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