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

2. What is the "delusion of reprieve"?
(a) When a psychiatric patient splits their own personality in two, in order to avoid dealing with trauma.
(b) This is when a person deludes themself into believing that the worst is over, and the best is yet to come.
(c) The idea that many psychiatric patients have, that someone else is responsible for their own well-being.
(d) The idea that a condemned person has the illusion just before death that he will be saved.

3. What job do those who greet the prisoners as they arrive to the concentration camp do?
(a) They decide which women are not strong enough to work.
(b) They find prisoners who are willing to lie about their identities.
(c) They take charge of the belongings of the new arrivals.
(d) They separate the sick from the fit.

4. What characterizes the second phase of a prisoner's mental state?
(a) Suprise at finding the beauty in camp life.
(b) Depression.
(c) Apathy in the face of the horrors of camp life.
(d) Grief.

5. During the time that the author spent in concentration camps, what does he describe as his main work?
(a) Preparing bodies for burial.
(b) Cleaning the guards' living and work quarters.
(c) Digging and laying tracks for railway lines.
(d) Working in the kitchen.