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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 Frankl claim is the nature of meaning?
(a) It does not emerge from existence, but confronting existence.
(b) It is not important because nothing has true meaning.
(c) Love is the true meaning of life.
(d) It is found in suffering, like when he was a prisoner.

2. What did prisoners often discuss when they had a free moment?
(a) Food.
(b) The past.
(c) Escape.
(d) Fear of death.

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

4. What is the principal question that the author tries to address?
(a) "How was everyday life in a prison camp reflected in the mind of the average person?"
(b) "Why did so many people follow such an extreme leader?"
(c) "What early childhood trauma may have prompted Hitler to his terrible ideas?"
(d) "Why did the atrocities in the concentration camps go on for so long?"

5. How does Frankl define the difference between how he and Jean-Paul Sartre define the meaning of our existence?
(a) For Frankl, we find our meaning, For Sartre, we invent it.
(b) While Frankl argues that the meaning of life is love, Sartre believes that the meaning of life has no connection to others.
(c) While Frankl considers meaning important in life, Sartre only considers it interesting, but not essential.
(d) Both agree that meaning is central to life, but Sartre believes it is important in how others see us.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was there a free fight among the prisoners?

2. Looking back at the experience of living in a concentration camp, what does Frankl say is the most wonderful feeling?

3. What kind of statue does Frankl argue should compliment the Statue of Liberty?

4. What rule did the author establish for himself in Auschwitz?

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

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