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 does Frankl respond to those who claimed they would commit suicide because "they had nothing to expect from life any more"?
(a) "You must truly listen to your own inner voice, and you will find that there is much more that you can expect."
(b) "Happiness can still be achieved."
(c) "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us."
(d) "Man was made to suffer, but there is meaning in suffering. With great humility this is possible."

2. Frankl writes that "every age has its own collective neurosis." What does he characterize as the neurosis of his day?
(a) The existential vacuum.
(b) Anxiety.
(c) Self-absorbtion.
(d) Noo-dynamics.

3. When was there a free fight among the prisoners?
(a) Before bed, when men and women competed for a place on a soft bed.
(b) Before work began daily, when prisoners competed to be assigned the first jobs, as these were the least physically demanding.
(c) Before there was a shipment of the feeble and inable to work, when prisoners struggled not to be transported to another site.
(d) Before meal time, when prisoners competed for one of the limited number of two-course meals.

4. When a journalist asked Frankl to describe logotherapy in a sentence, how did he respond?
(a) "Logotherapy teaches the patient patience."
(b) "It is the therapy which takes love and spirituality so seriously that it may ... save the world."
(c) "My patients learn to handle suffering with love and dignity."
(d) "In logotherapy the patient ... must hear things which sometimes are very disagreeable to hear."

5. What happened to the senior block warden who had a dream that he would be free on March thirtieth?
(a) He committed suicide a month prior.
(b) He died on March thirty-first.
(c) He fell ill on March thirty-first and died a month later.
(d) He had another dream on March thirtieth that they would be freed on July third.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do psychiatrists expect people to react in abnormal situations?

2. What position does the author volunteer for?

3. Why does the author, himself a concentration camp survivor, write, "We know: the best of us did not return"?

4. What concentration camp does the author describe traveling to?

5. What does Frankl claim is the most important part of suffering?

(see the answer key)

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