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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 Frankl ran the neurological department of a general hospital, what did he say he witnessed?
(a) "That suffering is only momentary, but the attitudes that lead to happiness can last a lifetime."
(b) His patient's capactity to "turn their predicaments into human achievements."
(c) He saw that "patients who listen to their own inner voice end up happier and healthier."
(d) That "suffering is a choice."
2. What did Frankl try to teach a former prisoner who felt that he could trample crops in a field because he had been through so much himself?
(a) "No one has the right to do wrong."
(b) "The way that you behave when nobody is watching speaks loudly of you."
(c) "Morality is measured in small moments."
(d) "By respecting nature, we learn to respect ourselves."
3. How does the friend of the author, who "smuggled himself" into the author's hut, suggest that the prisoners try to stay alive?
(a) He recommends they shave, to look younger, and that they avoid showing discomfort to appear more fit.
(b) He offers them tips to get more food at meal time.
(c) He recommends that they sleep every moment that they get a chance, to be energetic in their work.
(d) He suggests that they never speak around SS officers.
4. After the liberation of the camp, why does the SS take most of the remaining prisoners?
(a) To torture them so that they would not speak of their experiences.
(b) To send them to Switzerland.
(c) To kill them.
(d) To take them to another camp.
5. What is called "hyper-intention" in logotherapy?
(a) Fear of SS officers even after release from the concentration camps.
(b) Focusing on a goal in such a way that the goal is hindered.
(c) Worrying over what to do with an excess of energy rather than channeling it.
(d) Intending to create happiness, but not focusing enough to make it happen.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did the prison car that Frankl took pass?
2. When does the third phase of the prisoners' psychology begin?
3. What does Frankl argue is the meaning of life?
4. What characterizes the second phase of a prisoner's mental state?
5. What did the prisoners think of indoor work?
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