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

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

3. How did Frankl himself realize he was free?
(a) Walking alone in a field, he fell to his knees, recalling his former prayers for freedom.
(b) He returned to work, and was treated with respect by his clients for the first time in years.
(c) He saw a former fellow prisoner, and they realized how different they each looked.
(d) When walking down the street, someone called his name, and he realized that he had his identity back.

4. Why does the author, after leaving camp, upon seeing an image of prisoners lying on their bunks, argue that these aren't horrible images?
(a) They were images of people who had been spared the gas chambers.
(b) They are images of men that he knew, and all of them survived.
(c) They are images of men from the Capo who had been demoted, and one of them had been in a position to be cruel to the author before this demotion.
(d) They are images of sick prisoners who could stay in bed all day.

5. What did the camp doctor give his prisoners after they were liberated?
(a) Magazines.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Whiskey.
(d) Cigarettes.