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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 does the author have to do to satisfy the SS while filling in for the senior block warden?
(a) Keep the hut where sick inmates were located clean and orderly.
(b) Create full written reports on each of his patience.
(c) Treat his patients to the best of his ability.
(d) Create a full report on the medicines and other supplies that he used.

2. What did Frankl try to reconstruct, that he lost when he arrived to Auschwitz?
(a) The inserts in his shoes.
(b) A sling for his injured arm.
(c) A manuscript.
(d) A ring.

3. Under what conditions does Frankl describe the SS beating prisoners?
(a) When they were injurred and unable to work.
(b) When they spoke before being spoken to.
(c) At the direction of the SS authorities, prisoners were beaten.
(d) At the slightest provocation or for no reason at all.

4. What was the "most ghastly moment of the twenty-four hours of camp life"?
(a) Working in the early hours, in the cold.
(b) Waking up at three in the morning to work.
(c) Dinner time, hungry and dealing with small, flavorless food.
(d) Skipping lunch.

5. What does Frankl write is the aim of traditional Freudian psychotherapy?
(a) Restoring pleasure and happiness.
(b) Relieving pain.
(c) Creating a vision for the future
(d) Recalling the past.

Short Answer Questions

1. What question does Frankl claim that more and more doctors are confronted with?

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

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

4. How does Frankl respond to those who claimed they would commit suicide because "they had nothing to expect from life any more"?

5. What did Frankl learn happened at Auschwitz after he left?

(see the answer key)

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