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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. Before writing the second section of this text, had Frankl described logotherapy in writing?
(a) Yes, in seventeen volumes in German.
(b) Yes, in journals.
(c) Yes, in a published article.
(d) No.

2. What is Frankl's tone in "Basic Concepts of Logotherapy"?
(a) Serious and optimistic.
(b) Clinical.
(c) Sad and concerned.
(d) Angry.

3. What symptom characterizes the first mental phase of prisoners in concentration camps?
(a) Grief.
(b) Shock.
(c) Depression.
(d) Fatigue.

4. How were normal reactions hastened among the workers charged with removing sewage?
(a) The officers used loud noises to shock the prisoners as they removed the sewage.
(b) The officers in charge would "reward" those who finished their work quickly by forcing them to clean raw sewage, one of the worst jobs at the concentration camp.
(c) The Capo would strike them if they attempted to wipe off the sewage that splashed on their faces.
(d) The Capo would threaten them if they did not quickly stomp in the sewage to clean the latrines and remove sewage.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Frankl visit with the camp's chief doctor?

3. What does Frankl relate about an American diplomat who, after years of psychotherapy, went to logotherapy?

4. What did the more "prominent" prisoners, the Capo, develop in camp?

5. What kind of neuroses result from existential frustration?

(see the answer key)

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