VOCAB
A word that describes a state of mental or physical inactivity.
What is torpor?
Wrote “Meditations”
Who is Marcus Aurelius?
Ruth used this type of transportation to get around her neighborhood, embarrassing James.
What is a bike?
The name of the place where Frankl was mostly imprisoned during World War II.
What is Aucswhitz?
This school of thought made famous the thought: "Control the controllables."
What is Stoicism?
A word that describes a condition of moral deterioration.
What is decadance?
Had conversations with her husband, though she couldn’t talk back.
Who is Viktor Frankl's wife?
Ruth was born with this name before changing it.
What is Rachael?
The item prisoners were forced to give up upon arrival, stripping them of identity.
What is their name?
This verb means to blame or rebuke.
What is to censure?
This verb describes someone making abusive statements about someone else.
What is vilify?
Born in Poland, raised in Virginia, moved to New York
Who is Ruth McBride?
Ruth was raised in this religion before leaving it.
What is Orthodox Judaism?
The psychological approach Frankl develops after the war.
What is logotherapy?
Ruth’s younger sister
Dee Dee
This adjective describes a situation/position that is unable to be held or defended.
What is untenable?
Warns against our ‘default setting’
Who is David Foster Wallace?
James’s father, who died when James was young.
Who is Dennis McBride?
"This" game once determined whether or not Frankl would die.
What is the finger game?
This noun means a scarcity or insufficiency.
What is paucity?
This noun is defined as deliberate deceptiveness; deceit.
What is duplicity?
Owned the land that Thoreau lived one while writing “Walden”
Who is Emerson?
The place James travels to learn more about his mother’s early life.
What is Suffolk, VA?
Frankl borrowed this saying from Nietzsche to help explain his own philosophy.
What is "He who has a why can bear almost any how"?
James recalls being afraid of members of this Civil Rights group, more for his mother's safety than his.
Who are the Black Panthers?