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 decide not to try to escape the concentration camp?
(a) He fears that the route out of the camp is too visible.
(b) He believes that there is too much space outside the concentration camp, and they will not make it to the next populated town.
(c) He decides that his recent good mood would make the escape too obvious, and asks his friend to escape on his own.
(d) He decides that he would rather stay with his patients.

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

3. 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 were images of people who had been spared the gas chambers.
(d) 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.

4. 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) Creative work is the purpose of life.
(d) Love.

5. Why does Dr. Frankl describe that he sits next to corpses "crawling with lice" but they did not bother him?
(a) He was thankful, as he looked at these corpses, that he had not yet died.
(b) This was a space where he could find short periods of solitude.
(c) He was happy, sitting near these corpses, thinking about the lives that he was able to save as a doctor.
(d) He mentions this to illustrate the ideas that he was so emotionally detached that he simply didn't care who was near him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Frankl visit with the camp's chief doctor?

2. What kind of complex does the author write prisoners suffered from?

3. In contrast to psychoanalysis, what does Frankl claim logotherapy is centered around?

4. Looking back at the experience of living in a concentration camp, what does Frankl say is the most wonderful feeling?

5. Who narrates this story?

(see the answer key)

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