Answer: b) The author recognizes that he is spiritually and emotionally dead.
Explanation: In the given excerpt from "Night" by Elie Wiesel, the speaker describes the moment he was able to get up, because he was in bed, unable to get up, and he looked himself in the mirror and saw "a corpse" looking back at him, when the speaker mention a corpse, he is referring to himself, he used that metaphor to give the idea of his spiritual and emotional death.
