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

2. 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) 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.
(c) The author believes this because the prisoners kept themselves alive by brutally and dishonestly fighting for their existence.
(d) The author claims that this is the case because he deeply misses his family members who died at Auschwitz.

3. What kind of outbreak affected the prisoners at the author's camp?
(a) Scarlet Fever.
(b) Typhus.
(c) Measles.
(d) A strong seasonal flu.

4. How does the author describe the Capos?
(a) "The Capos lived in fear, knowing that they could be stripped of their privileges at any moment."
(b) "The Capos were miserable, knowing that they had betrayed their people."
(c) "The Capos enjoyed life in the prisons, and took pleasure in the humiliation of others."
(d) "Many Capos fared better in camp than they had in their entire lives."

5. 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) The idea that a condemned person has the illusion just before death that he will be saved.
(c) This is when a person deludes themself into believing that the worst is over, and the best is yet to come.
(d) The idea that many psychiatric patients have, that someone else is responsible for their own well-being.