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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. Where does the author claim that most of the extermination took place?
(a) In camps in northern Europe.
(b) In the big, famous camps.
(c) During mass transport, on the road to the camps.
(d) In small camps.

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

3. How does Frankl write that love is interpreted in psychotherapy?
(a) As the result of early family dynamics.
(b) As a phenomenon of sexual drives and instincts.
(c) As an unimportant aspect of life.
(d) As a troublesome part of life that often leads to difficulty.

4. What does the author attempt to describe in this essay?
(a) The ways in which living in a concentration camp made prisoners stronger.
(b) The experience of living in a concentration camp.
(c) The reason that the Nazis rose to power.
(d) The last days of the war.

5. 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 ate large amounts and spoke at length.
(c) Many enjoyed incredible amounts of exercise and great amounts of energy.
(d) They went mad.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the existential vacuum?

2. What does Frankl write about responsibility?

3. What did Frankl try to reconstruct, that he lost when he arrived to Auschwitz?

4. What kind of outbreak affected the prisoners at the author's camp?

5. What did Frankl speak to his fellow prisoners about when their morale was low?

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