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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. What does Frankl call "give-up-itis"?
(a) When one decides to commit suicide despite attempts to reason.
(b) When people do not seek happiness, but seek solitude.
(c) When prisoners allow themselves to be tortured and criticized rather than working.
(d) When one decided to escape prison despite the odds of being captured.

2. What question does Frankl claim that more and more doctors are confronted with?
(a) Where can I find love?
(b) What is life?
(c) Why do we all die?
(d) How can I act responsibly?

3. Who narrates this story?
(a) A former Nazi.
(b) A concentration camp survivor.
(c) A woman who hid Jews in her home to save them from the concentration camps.
(d) A woman who claims to have grown up with Hitler.

4. What did Frankl learn happened at Auschwitz after he left?
(a) Cannibalism broke out.
(b) Frankl's friend broke his leg and was sent to the gas chamber.
(c) Prisoners killed an SS officer.
(d) There was a fire.

5. What happens when the author was outside of the camp fences burying dead bodies?
(a) An SS officer discovers his plot to escape, and comes out to beat him.
(b) An earthquake destroys much of the camp.
(c) A delegate from the Red Cross arrives to liberate the prisoners.
(d) He falls and breaks his leg.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of sickness affected most of the prisoners in 1945?

3. What characterizes the second phase of a prisoner's mental state?

4. What does Frankl write about responsibility?

5. Who does Frankl quote (more than once) as writing: "He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how."

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