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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 think about during difficult moments?
(a) His favorite poem.
(b) His favorite recipe.
(c) His religion.
(d) His love for his wife.

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

3. When the author arrived to the concentration camp, the group of arrivals were separated into two lines. What happened to these two groups?
(a) One group was sent to the men's quarters, while the other group was sent to women's quarters.
(b) One group was sent on another train, while the group the author was part of remained at the same camp.
(c) One group was destined to work inside. The other group was destined for heavy labor.
(d) One group was used to work. The other group was killed.

4. Before writing the second section of this text, had Frankl described logotherapy in writing?
(a) Yes, in seventeen volumes in German.
(b) Yes, in journals.
(c) No.
(d) Yes, in a published article.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What question does Frankl claim that more and more doctors are confronted with?

2. Why does Frankl use the term logotherapy?

3. How does Frankl's understanding of individual meaning differ from that of Jean-Paul Sartre?

4. What does the author claim hurts most about the physical blows from SS officers?

5. Who is this book most concerned with?

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