Man's Search for Meaning Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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Man's Search for Meaning Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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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. How were the Capos chosen?
(a) They were randomly chosen from groups arriving by train daily.
(b) They were chosen according to their phyiscal strength.
(c) They were the prisoners who were seen as having a suitable character for the job.
(d) They were chosen for their height, as the work that they did required tall men.

2. How does Frankl describe the "size" of human suffering?
(a) It is impossible to gauge.
(b) It is only perceptible to the individual.
(c) It can never be as great as it was for prisoners in Auschwitz.
(d) It is relative.

3. 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) "People, even in these horrible circumstances, can control the way that they treat others."
(c) "We can all always choose our breathing patterns, which influence our mood, and that influences our actions."
(d) "Man can preserve a vestige of spiritual freedom, or independence of mind..."

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

5. What does the author claim helped to detach prisoner's minds from their surroundings?
(a) A card game that they invented in their quarters that they looked forward to during the day.
(b) A cold curiosity about what conditions they could survive.
(c) Intimate relationships with fellow prisoners.
(d) An intense fantasy life.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the third phase of the prisoners' psychology begin?

2. What is the principal question that the author tries to address?

3. What happens when the author was outside of the camp fences burying dead bodies?

4. Why did the Capo in the author's working party do him favors?

5. Frankl writes that "every age has its own collective neurosis." What does he characterize as the neurosis of his day?

(see the answer key)

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