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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 is the author's tone of voice in this, the second section, of the book?
(a) He writes in clinical terms about prisoners mental states, as a doctor, not a former prisoner.
(b) He uses vulgar language to describe the hatred he still feels for the SS.
(c) He describes his life before living in the concentration camp in exaggeratedly nostalgic terms.
(d) He is now emotionally detached as he remembers his earlier emotional life.

2. What did the more "prominent" prisoners, the Capo, develop in camp?
(a) Delusions of grandeur.
(b) Major depressive disorder.
(c) Dementia.
(d) Delirium.

3. What is Frankl's tone in "Basic Concepts of Logotherapy"?
(a) Angry.
(b) Serious and optimistic.
(c) Clinical.
(d) Sad and concerned.

4. What kind of neuroses result from existential frustration?
(a) Depressive neuroses.
(b) Anxiety neuroses.
(c) Noogenic neuroses.
(d) Existential neuroses.

5. What are "premium coupons"?
(a) These came from the construction firm that hired workers through the prison, and could be used to buy days off work.
(b) These were certificates from the SS guards, and were awarded to prisoners who arrived to work before the morning bell rang.
(c) These came from the construction firm that hired the workers from the prison, and could be exchanged for cigarettes.
(d) Raffle tickets given to the SS guards to award them things previously owned by the prisoners.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the author claim that most of the extermination took place?

2. Why does the author, after leaving camp, upon seeing an image of prisoners lying on their bunks, argue that these aren't horrible images?

3. What did Frankl think when he saw a group of convicts pass by?

4. Why did prisoners try to get to the center of the lines that workers formed in the morning?

5. What happens in the story of Death in Teheran?

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