1. What does the author claim helped to detach prisoner's minds from their surroundings?
(a) A cold curiosity about what conditions they could survive.
(b) A card game that they invented in their quarters that they looked forward to during the day.
(c) An intense fantasy life.
(d) Intimate relationships with fellow prisoners.

2. How many mental phases does the author claim that concentration camp prisoners go through?
(a) Ten distinct phases.
(b) Four phases.
(c) Three distinct phases.
(d) Two separate phases.

3. Why does the author, himself a concentration camp survivor, write, "We know: the best of us did not return"?
(a) This quote is taken from a paragraph in which the author writes that the humblest prisoners were the earliest to be killed by the SS officers.
(b) The author feels that the most defiant prisoners, those who stood up to the SS officers, were immediately killed.
(c) The author claims that this is the case because he deeply misses his family members who died at Auschwitz.
(d) The author believes this because the prisoners kept themselves alive by brutally and dishonestly fighting for their existence.

4. How is humor characterized in camp life?
(a) The SS offices, and occassionally the Capos, are the only people in camp who use humor.
(b) Prisoners use humor as a weapon in self-preservation.
(c) Humor is rarely used.
(d) Black humor is the most common kind of humor in camp.

5. What are "premium coupons"?
(a) These came from the construction firm that hired the workers from the prison, and could be exchanged for cigarettes.
(b) These were certificates from the SS guards, and were awarded to prisoners who arrived to work before the morning bell rang.
(c) These came from the construction firm that hired workers through the prison, and could be used to buy days off work.
(d) Raffle tickets given to the SS guards to award them things previously owned by the prisoners.