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Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Logotherapy in a Nutshell" (through page 157).
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What happens when the author was outside of the camp fences burying dead bodies?
(a) An earthquake destroys much of the camp.
(b) A delegate from the Red Cross arrives to liberate the prisoners.
(c) He falls and breaks his leg.
(d) An SS officer discovers his plot to escape, and comes out to beat him.
2. What does Frankl relate about an American diplomat who, after years of psychotherapy, went to logotherapy?
(a) 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.
(b) 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.
(c) The diplomat decided that he no longer needed therapy because his life already was full of meaning.
(d) After years of exploring the instinctual roots of a spiritual problem, in logotherapy, his desire to change jobs was taken seriously.
3. What are noo-dynamics?
(a) Family dynamics in which spiritual issues play a role.
(b) A tension between who a person is and who they can become.
(c) The tension between a victim and a victimizer.
(d) The dynamics between existential boredom and meaning.
4. What happened when prisoners, who were pressured for years, suddenly released that pressure?
(a) They went mad.
(b) They ate large amounts and spoke at length.
(c) Many enjoyed incredible amounts of exercise and great amounts of energy.
(d) They found they enjoyed their own company much more than the company of those who had never experienced life in a concentration camp.
5. How does Frankl's understanding of individual meaning differ from that of Jean-Paul Sartre?
(a) For Sartre, it is invented. For Frankl it is found.
(b) Sartre believes there is no meaning. Frankl believes it is crucial to life.
(c) Sartre believes that meaning is collective. Frankl believes it is individual.
(d) Frankl took the idea from Sartre, and his definition is the same.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the existential vacuum?
2. Why does the author decide not to try to escape the concentration camp?
3. What does Frankl claim is the nature of meaning?
4. What does the author have to do to satisfy the SS while filling in for the senior block warden?
5. What was the main characteristic of the second phase of the prisoner's mental life?
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