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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. What does the author attempt to describe in this essay?
(a) The reason that the Nazis rose to power.
(b) The experience of living in a concentration camp.
(c) The ways in which living in a concentration camp made prisoners stronger.
(d) The last days of the war.

2. How does logotherapy "conceive" of conscience?
(a) "It defines our situation in terms that in turn decide whether or not we can be happy."
(b) "As a prompter which, if need be, indicates the direction in which we have to move in a given life situation."
(c) "It shows us which people are worthy of our trust and which are not."
(d) "The voice that shows us which way we should go to best avoid suffering."

3. What does Frankl believe explains the lack of sexual urge in the concentration camp?
(a) Fear.
(b) Undernourishment.
(c) Stress.
(d) Shock.

4. After the liberation of the camp, why does the SS take most of the remaining prisoners?
(a) To send them to Switzerland.
(b) To kill them.
(c) To torture them so that they would not speak of their experiences.
(d) To take them to another camp.

5. Where does the author claim that most of the extermination took place?
(a) In the big, famous camps.
(b) In small camps.
(c) In camps in northern Europe.
(d) During mass transport, on the road to the camps.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the exceptions to the "cultural hibernation" in camp?

2. Frankl was sent to another camp after his stay in Auschwitz. Why were the prisoners there pleased?

3. What happened to the senior block warden who had a dream that he would be free on March thirtieth?

4. How does Frankl write that Freudian psychotherapy deals with spiritual issues?

5. What does Frankl suggest happens to "self-centeredness" in logotherapy?

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