Man's Search for Meaning Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 189 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Man's Search for Meaning Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 189 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
Buy the Man's Search for Meaning Lesson Plans
Name: _________________________ Period: ___________________

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. What does Frankl suggest happens to "self-centeredness" in logotherapy?
(a) It is used to show the patient how their thought pattern should change.
(b) It is made evident.
(c) It is broken up.
(d) It is fostered in order to build confidence.

2. Why does Dr. Frankl describe that he sits next to corpses "crawling with lice" but they did not bother him?
(a) He was thankful, as he looked at these corpses, that he had not yet died.
(b) He mentions this to illustrate the ideas that he was so emotionally detached that he simply didn't care who was near him.
(c) He was happy, sitting near these corpses, thinking about the lives that he was able to save as a doctor.
(d) This was a space where he could find short periods of solitude.

3. Who does Frankl quote (more than once) as writing: "He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how."
(a) Nietzche.
(b) Christ.
(c) Confucius.
(d) Plato.

4. How does logotherapy "conceive" of conscience?
(a) "It defines our situation in terms that in turn decide whether or not we can be happy."
(b) "It shows us which people are worthy of our trust and which are not."
(c) "The voice that shows us which way we should go to best avoid suffering."
(d) "As a prompter which, if need be, indicates the direction in which we have to move in a given life situation."

5. How do psychiatrists expect people to react in abnormal situations?
(a) They expect an abnormal reaction according to the person's degree of normality.
(b) They expect that a normal person in an abnormal situation will demonstrate severe stress.
(c) They expect mentally healthy people to have balanced reactions to such situations.
(d) They expect strong reactions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Frankl call "give-up-itis"?

2. What does Frankl say society confuses with dignity?

3. What does Frankl use as an example of what "man is capable of"?

4. When does the third phase of the prisoners' psychology begin?

5. Where does the author claim that most of the extermination took place?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 423 words
(approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page)
Buy the Man's Search for Meaning Lesson Plans
Copyrights
BookRags
Man's Search for Meaning from BookRags. (c)2026 BookRags, Inc. All rights reserved.