Man's Search for Meaning Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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Man's Search for Meaning Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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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. Why was the author not bothered by sitting near lice-infested human corpses?
(a) He was able, near these bodies, to spend a few minutes alone.
(b) As a doctor, he knew that if he were infected with lice, he could easily treat himself.
(c) He was able to distract himself thinking of his love for his wife.
(d) He was emotionally distanced from death, and saw the humor in the situation.

2. What role does suffering play in life, according to Frankl?
(a) It is a necessary evil from which we can all learn valuable life lessons.
(b) It is best avoided to the extent possible.
(c) It is a part of life to be worked through to get to a more hopeful future.
(d) It is a meaningful part of life.

3. When was there a free fight among the prisoners?
(a) Before work began daily, when prisoners competed to be assigned the first jobs, as these were the least physically demanding.
(b) Before bed, when men and women competed for a place on a soft bed.
(c) Before meal time, when prisoners competed for one of the limited number of two-course meals.
(d) Before there was a shipment of the feeble and inable to work, when prisoners struggled not to be transported to another site.

4. What importance does Frankl give to the numbers assigned to prisoners?
(a) These were assigned because they were simpler and more economical to tattoo on prisoner's bodies than full names.
(b) This was a method devised at Auschwitz in order to easily track prisoners that were transported from one concentration camp to another.
(c) The use of numbers was part of a program to erase the prisoner's name, history, and past.
(d) This was just one more humiliation.

5. What does Frankl suggest is the meaning of life?
(a) Charitable work or work that advances the common causes of humanity.
(b) It is different for each individual.
(c) Love.
(d) Creative work is the purpose of life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of neuroses result from existential frustration?

2. Why did the Capo in the author's working party do him favors?

3. What does Frankl believe makes a person "worthy of his sufferings or not"?

4. How were the Capos chosen?

5. What is the principal question that the author tries to address?

(see the answer key)

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