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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 choice does the author claim that people can control in difficult circumstances?
(a) "In any circumstance... man can choose his own reaction, we can all choose to focus on love."
(b) "Man can preserve a vestige of spiritual freedom, or independence of mind..."
(c) "People, even in these horrible circumstances, can control the way that they treat others."
(d) "We can all always choose our breathing patterns, which influence our mood, and that influences our actions."
2. What does Frankl argue is the meaning of life?
(a) Humility.
(b) Service.
(c) It varies.
(d) Love.
3. What happened, according to the author, to the instinct to violence in the prisoners?
(a) It completely disappeared as they learned what being a victim was like.
(b) It grew as they saw more and more violence.
(c) It decreased as they saw the harm violence made.
(d) They reacted more and more irritably when faced with violence.
4. How does logotherapy deal with spiritual issues?
(a) As unnecessary because there is no single meaning.
(b) Seriously, in spiritual terms.
(c) As instincts.
(d) Logotherapy does not deal with these issues.
5. Why does the author, after leaving camp, upon seeing an image of prisoners lying on their bunks, argue that these aren't horrible images?
(a) They are images of sick prisoners who could stay in bed all day.
(b) They are images of men from the Capo who had been demoted, and one of them had been in a position to be cruel to the author before this demotion.
(c) They were images of people who had been spared the gas chambers.
(d) They are images of men that he knew, and all of them survived.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Frankl write that love is interpreted in psychotherapy?
2. What does Frankl write was the most depressing feature of life in a concentration camp?
3. What does Frankl suggest happens to "self-centeredness" in logotherapy?
4. What position does the author volunteer for?
5. What caused former prisoners to feel bitterness?
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