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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. Frankl cites studies in which aggression is built up between groups of Boy Scouts. How were researchers successful in causing the aggression to subside?
(a) Yelling.
(b) Offering a common treat to all the boys.
(c) Joining the groups in a common cause.
(d) Having a meeting in which the boys themselves write new rules.

2. How were prisoners identified?
(a) By number.
(b) By the room they were assigned.
(c) By the name of the place they lived before being captured.
(d) By name.

3. What does Frankl believe humans have the capacity to do with something negative?
(a) Plan to move beyond it.
(b) Turn it into something fun, and make it a source of happiness.
(c) Understand how to behave with dignity despite it.
(d) Turn it into something constructive.

4. Frankl writes that suffering is unavoidable, so what matters most in the way that we respond to suffering?
(a) Our attitude.
(b) Our love for one another.
(c) Our ability to understand our suffering as part of the story of our life.
(d) Our understanding of why we have been chosen to suffer.

5. How does Frankl define nihilism?
(a) Being sad about the lack of meaninglessness.
(b) A kind of "learned meaninglessness."
(c) No longer searching for meaning.
(d) Satisfying oneself with a loveless life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Frankl think of the concept of collective guilt?

2. How does Frankl describe the "size" of human suffering?

3. For Frankl, what makes life meaningful and purposeful?

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

5. What are the ways that logotherapy believes meaning in life can be found?

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