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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 Frankl call the "tragic triad"?
(a) Problems with worry, money, and death.
(b) Difficulties in love, hope, and understanding.
(c) Circumstances having to do with pain, guilt, and death.
(d) Circumstances having to do with suffering, meaning, and desire.

2. How do psychiatrists expect people to react in abnormal situations?
(a) They expect that a normal person in an abnormal situation will demonstrate severe stress.
(b) They expect strong reactions.
(c) They expect mentally healthy people to have balanced reactions to such situations.
(d) They expect an abnormal reaction according to the person's degree of normality.

3. Does Frankl allow logotherapy-trained therapists to train under the licensing requirements of other schools?
(a) No, Frankl argues that he has already taken ideas from other schools into account.
(b) Yes, but he argues that they should remain true to the basic concepts.
(c) Yes, because the practicioners of logotherapy should be open to new ideas.
(d) No, Frankl writes that other schools are not compatible with his.

4. What were the wishes and desires of prisoners?
(a) Intellectual stimulation.
(b) Most of the men wished for intimacy.
(c) The strongest desire was often for more water than was readily available.
(d) Food and comfort.

5. What was the main characteristic of the second phase of the prisoner's mental life?
(a) Anger.
(b) Violence.
(c) Apathy.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Frankl write was the most depressing feature of life in a concentration camp?

2. Was there art in the concentration camp?

3. How does the existential vacuum manifest itself?

4. What did Frankl visit with the camp's chief doctor?

5. Why were camp inmates frightened of decisions?

(see the answer key)

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