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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 happens when the author was outside of the camp fences burying dead bodies?
(a) He falls and breaks his leg.
(b) An SS officer discovers his plot to escape, and comes out to beat him.
(c) An earthquake destroys much of the camp.
(d) A delegate from the Red Cross arrives to liberate the prisoners.

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

3. What happened when prisoners, who were pressured for years, suddenly released that pressure?
(a) They found they enjoyed their own company much more than the company of those who had never experienced life in a concentration camp.
(b) They went mad.
(c) They ate large amounts and spoke at length.
(d) Many enjoyed incredible amounts of exercise and great amounts of energy.

4. What symptom characterizes the first mental phase of prisoners in concentration camps?
(a) Shock.
(b) Grief.
(c) Fatigue.
(d) Depression.

5. What is the "delusion of reprieve"?
(a) The idea that a condemned person has the illusion just before death that he will be saved.
(b) The idea that many psychiatric patients have, that someone else is responsible for their own well-being.
(c) This is when a person deludes themself into believing that the worst is over, and the best is yet to come.
(d) When a psychiatric patient splits their own personality in two, in order to avoid dealing with trauma.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the existential vacuum?

2. What happened, according to the author, to the instinct to violence in the prisoners?

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

4. How were normal reactions hastened among the workers charged with removing sewage?

5. Why does Frankl use the term logotherapy?

(see the answer key)

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