1. Why does the author decide not to try to escape the concentration camp?
(a) He fears that the route out of the camp is too visible.
(b) He decides that his recent good mood would make the escape too obvious, and asks his friend to escape on his own.
(c) He decides that he would rather stay with his patients.
(d) He believes that there is too much space outside the concentration camp, and they will not make it to the next populated town.

2. What concentration camp does the author describe traveling to?
(a) Sachsenhausen.
(b) Buchenwald.
(c) Auschwitz.
(d) Dachau.

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

4. What position does the author volunteer for?
(a) He volunteers to move rocks so that he can leave the camp occasionally.
(b) He volunteers to work as a doctor.
(c) He volunteers to work as a personal secretary so that he can work inside.
(d) He volunteers to clean up sewage so that a friend can be spared that job.

5. Why did the Capo in the author's working party do him favors?
(a) The author aided him in finding the strongest men to work on his team.
(b) The author listened to his marital problems and offered psychotherapeutic advice.
(c) The author was his doctor before he was put in prison.
(d) This Capo favored him because they were from the same hometown.