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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. Who is Jerry Long?
(a) Frankl writes of his admiration for this psychologist, and his understanding of the importance of a spiritual life.
(b) Frankl writes that he was a kind SS offficer, and was remembered by all the prisoners he knew at Auschwitz.
(c) Frankl writes about his spirit to live a good life despite being paralyzed.
(d) Frankl writes that he was a man who, despite humiliation and fear, walked with dignity to the gas chambers.

2. How did Frankl earn the favor of "The Murderous Capo"?
(a) He gave him psychological advice.
(b) He held his hand.
(c) He applauded him.
(d) He spoke to him of hope.

3. What is the name of the school of therapy that Frankl stands for?
(a) Behavioral therapy.
(b) Psychotherapy.
(c) Hypno-therapy.
(d) Logotherapy.

4. When comparing logotherapy and Freudian psychotherapy, what does Frankl write is the focus of logotherapy?
(a) Suffering.
(b) The future.
(c) The interior life.
(d) The past.

5. What characterizes the second phase of a prisoner's mental state?
(a) Grief.
(b) Depression.
(c) Apathy in the face of the horrors of camp life.
(d) Suprise at finding the beauty in camp life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author think about during difficult moments?

2. What is Frankl's imperative?

3. What is the existential vacuum?

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

5. What job do those who greet the prisoners as they arrive to the concentration camp do?

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