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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. When the author arrived to the concentration camp, the group of arrivals were separated into two lines. What happened to these two groups?
(a) One group was sent on another train, while the group the author was part of remained at the same camp.
(b) One group was used to work. The other group was killed.
(c) One group was destined to work inside. The other group was destined for heavy labor.
(d) One group was sent to the men's quarters, while the other group was sent to women's quarters.

2. What does the author claim helped to detach prisoner's minds from their surroundings?
(a) A cold curiosity about what conditions they could survive.
(b) Intimate relationships with fellow prisoners.
(c) An intense fantasy life.
(d) A card game that they invented in their quarters that they looked forward to during the day.

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

4. What did Frankl learn happened at Auschwitz after he left?
(a) Prisoners killed an SS officer.
(b) Cannibalism broke out.
(c) Frankl's friend broke his leg and was sent to the gas chamber.
(d) There was a fire.

5. Where does the author of the book travel in a "prison car" with small peepholes?
(a) Past his hometown.
(b) To Switzerland.
(c) Through Germany.
(d) To Auschwitz.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Frankl term supra-meaning?

2. What is the name of the school of therapy that Frankl stands for?

3. What happens when the author was outside of the camp fences burying dead bodies?

4. What characterizes the second phase of a prisoner's mental state?

5. When a journalist asked Frankl to describe logotherapy in a sentence, how did he respond?

(see the answer key)

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