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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Case for a Tragic Optimism" (through page 179).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Frankl respond to an SS officer who called him a pig, and asked him what his profession was?
(a) He told him he was a doctor who did charitable work.
(b) He said he had been a psychiatrist, and understood perfectly what his issues were.
(c) He argued that it was none of his business, and then tried to hit him.
(d) He refused to speak.

2. After the liberation of the camp, why does the SS take most of the remaining prisoners?
(a) To take them to another camp.
(b) To torture them so that they would not speak of their experiences.
(c) To send them to Switzerland.
(d) To kill them.

3. What kind of statue does Frankl argue should compliment the Statue of Liberty?
(a) A Statue of Meaning.
(b) A Statue of Memory.
(c) A Statue of Responsibility.
(d) A Statue of Hope.

4. How were prisoners identified?
(a) By name.
(b) By the name of the place they lived before being captured.
(c) By number.
(d) By the room they were assigned.

5. When a journalist asked Frankl to describe logotherapy in a sentence, how did he respond?
(a) "My patients learn to handle suffering with love and dignity."
(b) "It is the therapy which takes love and spirituality so seriously that it may ... save the world."
(c) "Logotherapy teaches the patient patience."
(d) "In logotherapy the patient ... must hear things which sometimes are very disagreeable to hear."

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Frankl respond to those who claimed they would commit suicide because "they had nothing to expect from life any more"?

2. What did the camp doctor give his prisoners after they were liberated?

3. What are the ways that logotherapy believes meaning in life can be found?

4. Why did the Capo in the author's working party do him favors?

5. What does Frankl believe makes a person "worthy of his sufferings or not"?

(see the answer key)

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