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

2. What does Frankl relate about an American diplomat who, after years of psychotherapy, went to logotherapy?
(a) The diplomat decided that he no longer needed therapy because his life already was full of meaning.
(b) The diplomat, who was suicidal, and understood this as the result of his difficult infancy, finally learned to focus on the future, and decided not to take his life.
(c) The diplomat learned from logotherapy that his problem was that he understood his job added to the suffering of others, and for that reason he quit.
(d) After years of exploring the instinctual roots of a spiritual problem, in logotherapy, his desire to change jobs was taken seriously.

3. What possession does the author of this book try to keep after arriving to the concentration camp?
(a) A wedding ring.
(b) A scientific manuscript.
(c) A gold tooth.
(d) A sturdy pair of boots.

4. Why did Frankl have to leave his shoes unlaced?
(a) He injured his ankle and had a hidden makeshift cast.
(b) He suffered from edema.
(c) He was given shoes that were too small.
(d) His socks, though warm, were the wrong size.

5. Frankl was sent to another camp after his stay in Auschwitz. Why were the prisoners there pleased?
(a) There were no gas chambers.
(b) The food was good.
(c) There was no snow.
(d) The SS was not as cruel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Frankl call "the existential vacuum"?

2. What does Frankl claim that happy people do better than unhappy people?

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

4. What kind of outbreak affected the prisoners at the author's camp?

5. What is Frankl's tone in "Basic Concepts of Logotherapy"?

(see the answer key)

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