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

2. What importance does Frankl give to the numbers assigned to prisoners?
(a) This was just one more humiliation.
(b) These were assigned because they were simpler and more economical to tattoo on prisoner's bodies than full names.
(c) The use of numbers was part of a program to erase the prisoner's name, history, and past.
(d) This was a method devised at Auschwitz in order to easily track prisoners that were transported from one concentration camp to another.

3. What happened, according to the author, to the instinct to violence in the prisoners?
(a) It decreased as they saw the harm violence made.
(b) They reacted more and more irritably when faced with violence.
(c) It grew as they saw more and more violence.
(d) It completely disappeared as they learned what being a victim was like.

4. Why does Frankl believe that man behaves morally?
(a) Man decides to act morally.
(b) Most men are moral.
(c) Man has a moral drive.
(d) Man is instinctively moral and religious.

5. In contrast to psychoanalysis, what does Frankl claim logotherapy is centered around?
(a) The will to meaning.
(b) Decision.
(c) The right to dignity.
(d) Principle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Frankl use as an example of "what is at stake" in our use of logotherapy?

2. What is the author's tone of voice in this, the second section, of the book?

3. Who does the author describe smoking in the concentration camps?

4. How did Frankl himself realize he was free?

5. Frankl cites studies in which aggression is built up between groups of Boy Scouts. How were researchers successful in causing the aggression to subside?

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