The Question of God PDF Quizzes

# The Question of God ## Mr Schreiner ### Quiz #1 on Man's Search for Meaning (pp3-20) **Multiple Choice** Please circle the letter of the best answer 1. At the beginning of the book, what question does Frankl say he will answer? * a. "How terrible were the conditions in the concentration ca...

# The Question of God ## Mr Schreiner ### Quiz #1 on Man's Search for Meaning (pp3-20) **Multiple Choice** Please circle the letter of the best answer 1. At the beginning of the book, what question does Frankl say he will answer? * a. "How terrible were the conditions in the concentration camp that you were forced to live in?" * b. "How was everyday life in a concentration camp reflected in the mind of the average prisoner?" * c. "How did you plot to resist your captors or even to escape the concentration camp?" * d. "How did you manage the PTSD you suffered as a result of your imprisonment?" 2. What kinds of events does Frankl say that he is most interested in describing? * a. The dramatic suffering of those held up as heroes by the other prisoners * b. The betrayal of those prisoners who chose to cooperate with their captors * c. The cruelties inflicted on the prisoners by men who seemed perfectly normal in their home life * d. The sacrifices of the great army of unknown victims of the camps 3. How does Frankl assess the character of the average person who survived the concentration camps? * a. They were prepared to use any means necessary to survive, including brutal force and betrayal * b. They were among the most selfless prisoners, and were rewarded for their moral fortitude * c. They were the meekest among the prisoners, always obeying the guards and their cooperators * d. They were the most hot-headed, and the guards left them alone for fear of them starting a riot 4. What was Frankl's primary job inside the camp? * a. Psychiatrist * b. Physician * c. Railway Worker * d. Engineer 5. At the end of the section, what did the man who snuck into Frankl's hut tell him? * a. That the camp commander wanted to see him * b. That he was going to be the next person gassed * c. That he better hide his manuscript before a guard saw it * d. That his wife and children had just been gassed ### Quiz #2 on Man's Search for Meaning (pp20-41) **Multiple Choice** Please circle the letter of the best answer 1. For Frankl, the second stage of a prisoner's psychological reaction to camp life is primarily ruled by: * a. Anger * b. Apathy * c. Spiritual death * d. Resignation 2. For Frankl, what was the most painful part of their beatings by the guards? * a. The feeling of leather against bare skin with no fat underneath * b. The racial slurs directed at them by the SS * c. The humiliation of having their fellow Jews see them so helpless * d. The insult which these beatings implied 3. What revelation did Frankl have while marching in the cold before dawn? * a. The salvation of man is through love and in love * b. God continues to reach out to each person, no matter what circumstances he is in * c. The Nazis were really pitiable men who only acted in ways that tried to cover their insecurities * d. The mind is practically limitless in its power to subdue the body to its will 4. What could lead prisoners to escape the "emptiness, desolation, and spiritual poverty of his existence"? * a. An intensification of his inner life * b. A renewed interest in developing friendships with fellow prisoners * c. An acceptance of the inevitability of his own death-and soon * d. Setting goals for when he could return to 'normal' life 5. What was a consequence for the prisoners who managed to escape the poverty mentioned in #4? * a. The sniping and backbiting among themselves stopped * b. They were able to garner more sympathy from even the sternest guards * c. They experienced the beauty of art and nature as never before * d. The stopped fretting tomorrow and were able to devore their attention more fully to the present ### Quiz #3 on Man's Search for Meaning (pp41-69) **True/False** Please clearly write a "T" or "F" to indicate whether the statement is true or false, respectively 1. After liberation, Frankl thought that a photo taken of camp prisoners didn't look too terrible 2. Frankl thinks that meaning in life can be found by striving to eradicate human suffering **Multiple Choice** Please circle the letter of the best answer 3. What does Frankl think is one of the "mental" causes of the apathy experienced by prisoners? * a. The utter degradation they experienced (being treated without any value whatsoever) * b. The conviction that they would never get out alive * c. The lack of any communication from the outside world * d. The \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ 4. What is the message of the "Death in Teheran" story? * a. When pushed, people can be shockingly cruel * b. It is much easier to kill someone when you can't identify with him * c. No matter what we do, we can't escape fate * d. Even though death may surround us, we should still live with hope 5. For Frankl, what makes life meaningful and purposeful? * a. To love and to be loved by others * b. The exercise of spiritual freedom * c. Raising children in the tradition of your forebears * d. Participating in the religious life of your community ### Quiz #4 on Man's Search for Meaning (pp69 to the end of Part One) **True/False** Please clearly write a "T" or "F" to indicate whether the statement is true or false, respectively 1. Frankl writes "whoever has survived any beastly 'how' during his life will soon find the 'why' for it" 2. Frankl claims that the fellow prisoners could be more cruel than their German captors **Multiple Choice** Please circle the letter of the best answer 3. One's "provisional existence" made it very difficult to maintain spiritual freedom in the camp. What is this? * a. Being alive today, but unsure that you have a future to live for * b. Being completely dependent on others for your survival * c. The unending job of providing for others, while never being 'filled up' yourself * d. A way of life characterized solely by survival, without generative or fulfilling activity 4. Why does Frankl write that he "needed to stop asking about the meaning of life? * a Because life should only be enjoyed; there is no ultimate meaning * b. Because it was more important to get to work on his patients * c. Because it prevented him from fully feeling the pain that connected him to the present * d. Because the 'meaning' can only be found in performing tasks in our specific circumstances 5. The last psychological stage of the prisoner, once liberated, Frankl names as: * a. Depressurization * b. Depersonalization * c. Deprogramming * d. Deculturation There is nothing he need fear any more - except his God. **Extra Credit:** In the last paragraph of Part One, what is the "wonderful feeling" for the homecoming prisoner? Feeling like his [other ] experiences in the concentration camps are nothing more than a nightmare. # The Question of God ## Mr Schreiner ### Quiz on The Mystery of God and Transcendent Experience **True/False** Please fill in "T" to indicate a true statement or "F" to indicate a false statement 1. The story of Adam & Eve can teach us that we can neither grasp nor hide from God 2. Rahner claims that God is "co-experienced" in the world, not apart from it 3. In his encounter with Moses, God grants his request to reveal his personal name 4. Lane warns that authentic experiences of God take years of preparation 5. Bishop Barron agrees with atheists who think that the idea of God as something in the world is silly 6. Lane analogizes that our experience of God to being in a dark cave suddenly lit by flame 7. For Lane, mystical [direct] experience should not be viewed as the primary way of contact with God **Multiple Choice** Please circle the letter(s) of the best answer 8. "Transcendent" (from Barron's discussion of Adam & Eve) most nearly means * a. Difficult to understand * b. Different, outside the normal realm * c. Nearby, embedded in creation * d. In the form of a human being 9. "Immanent" (from Barron's discussion of Adam & Eve) most nearly means * a. Difficult to understand * b. Different, outside the normal realm * c. Nearby, embedded in creation * d. In the form of a human being 10. For Otto, religious or supernatural experience is essentially what? * a. Non-rational; we have this experience through our senses and emotions * b. Rational; we conclude from evidence in the world around us that there is a Holy being * c. Non-rational; we simply have to take on faith the teachings of our forebears * d. Rational; we can rely on deductive philosophical proof for knowledge of the Holy 11. Which term invented by Otto describes the experience of supernatural reality? * a. Grace * b. Submergence * c. Tremorous * d. Numinous 12. What objection does Otto have to using "Holiness" to describe the Transcendent? * a. He doesn't think that God or the Transcendent is all that different from us * b. He thinks that we can tie "holiness" too closely with "moral goodness" * c. He thinks that holiness is a term that is too closely associated with Judeo-Christian tradition * d. He thought that he had to develop a clever new buzzword to get publishers to read him 13. Otto's famous phrase "mysterium tremendum et fascinans" refers to what? (Choose two) * a. An experience of the Holy that is attractive and intoxicating * b. An experience of the Holy that is confusing and bewildering * c. An experience of the Holy that induces fearful submission * d. An experience of the Holy that is overwhelming in its power and 'otherness' 14. What misunderstandings does Lane want to correct about the nature of religious experience? (Choose all that apply) * a. God will sometimes ask us to use violence to achieve his goals * b. It necessarily includes direct and immediate experience of God * c. God is directly available to some people and not others * d. This experience can take place only after years of intensive preparation 15. Which of the following is NOT an analogy that Lane uses to discuss religious experience? * a. The experience of a work of art * b. The sun and its relationship to our sight * c. The relationship between a dog and his owner * d. Seeing someone on a bus 16. What event in CS Lewis's childhood first caused him to lose faith in God? * a. The death of his mother * b. The death of his father * c. Being forced to move to America * d. His family's descent into poverty 17. Which of the following best describes Lewis's idea of "joy"? * a. The intense satisfaction of a long-term pursuit * b. An intense longing, especially for something elusive, intangible * c. A direct, unmediated experience of God * d. A deep experience of connection with others 18. In Catholicism, on what point does Bishop Barron say he agrees with atheists? * a. God is not a being in the universe * b. God is not all-knowing * c. God must have Himself been caused * d. Nothing in scientific inquiry suggests the possibility of God 19. Citing Thomas Aquinas, what description does Bishop Barron give about God? * a. God is the greatest being in the universe * b. God is not a being, but is Himself the act of to be itself * c. God is both a tangible and intangible being * d. God's being is of a different category than our being **Matching I - "Transcendent Experience"** Please write in the letter(s) corresponding to the person whose perspective is described. Some answers may be used once or not at all * a. Margaret Klenk (Bangs) * b. Winifred Gallagher (pixie cut) * c. Michael Sherman (turtleneck) * d. Louis Massiah (Locks) * e. Jeremy Fraiberg (Homoelle) * ab. Douglas Holladay (Tex) * ac. Dr Frederick Lee (Try-hard) * A. 20) God is experienced in the deep human desire for connection and for "the Other" * E. 21) Had 'spiritual' experiences exploring the wonders of the cosmos * 22) Experiences God in moments of vulnerability and connection with other * ab. 23) God can be discerned in a persistent and mysterious desire-"the Hound of Heaven" * D. 24) Notices God in the lives of people who live out countercultural values of pacifism and compassion * B. 25) Experienced God while trying to think about nothing at all in the practice of Buddhist meditation **Extra Credit:** Name one of the specific elements of 'tremendum' outlined by Otto Overwelming, Awefulness, Energy