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 does the author, after leaving camp, upon seeing an image of prisoners lying on their bunks, argue that these aren't horrible images?
(a) They are images of sick prisoners who could stay in bed all day.
(b) They are images of men that he knew, and all of them survived.
(c) They are images of men from the Capo who had been demoted, and one of them had been in a position to be cruel to the author before this demotion.
(d) They were images of people who had been spared the gas chambers.

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

3. How does Frankl define the difference between how he and Jean-Paul Sartre define the meaning of our existence?
(a) Both agree that meaning is central to life, but Sartre believes it is important in how others see us.
(b) While Frankl considers meaning important in life, Sartre only considers it interesting, but not essential.
(c) While Frankl argues that the meaning of life is love, Sartre believes that the meaning of life has no connection to others.
(d) For Frankl, we find our meaning, For Sartre, we invent it.

4. How does Frankl respond to those who claimed they would commit suicide because "they had nothing to expect from life any more"?
(a) "Man was made to suffer, but there is meaning in suffering. With great humility this is possible."
(b) "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us."
(c) "You must truly listen to your own inner voice, and you will find that there is much more that you can expect."
(d) "Happiness can still be achieved."

5. What kind of sickness affected most of the prisoners in 1945?
(a) Scarlet Fever.
(b) Measles.
(c) Herpes.
(d) Typhus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author think about during difficult moments?

2. What "deep concern" does Frankl write helped him to survive Auschwitz?

3. Why were dead men thrown on trains transporting prisoners to different concentration camps?

4. What did the more "prominent" prisoners, the Capo, develop in camp?

5. Why does the author decide not to try to escape the concentration camp?

(see the answer key)

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