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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. Under what conditions does Frankl describe the SS beating prisoners?
(a) When they were injurred and unable to work.
(b) When they spoke before being spoken to.
(c) At the slightest provocation or for no reason at all.
(d) At the direction of the SS authorities, prisoners were beaten.

2. When Frankl was scheduled to be transported to another camp, what did the chief doctor do?
(a) Arranged for Frankl to stay.
(b) Created a new position for Frankl in the next camp.
(c) Fired Frankl from his job.
(d) Forged a letter of introduction.

3. In contrast to psychoanalysis, what does Frankl claim logotherapy is centered around?
(a) The right to dignity.
(b) Decision.
(c) The will to meaning.
(d) Principle.

4. In the most difficult moments of our existence, what does Frankl suggest is the salvation of man?
(a) To pray.
(b) To consider our favorite things.
(c) To recall the past.
(d) To look into the future.

5. Why did the Capo in the author's working party do him favors?
(a) The author was his doctor before he was put in prison.
(b) The author aided him in finding the strongest men to work on his team.
(c) This Capo favored him because they were from the same hometown.
(d) The author listened to his marital problems and offered psychotherapeutic advice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Frankl's opinion of love?

2. Why does the author, himself a concentration camp survivor, write, "We know: the best of us did not return"?

3. Frankl writes that suffering is unavoidable, so what matters most in the way that we respond to suffering?

4. What does Frankl write was the most depressing feature of life in a concentration camp?

5. What was the "most ghastly moment of the twenty-four hours of camp life"?

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