View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. After cleaning up the mess at a Euthanasia institute Stangl reported to T4 for new orders and chose to go to Lublin where he reported to what SS officer?

2. Another man closely connected with the Euthanasia Programme, Albert Hartl was a priest for how many years before joining the SS?

3. Stangl was born in a small town in Austria on March 26th in what year?

4. German army records revealed "Executions" addressed to security police in Riga, reported how many women executed?

5. Hartl joined the SS in what year?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Franz Reichleitner whom Stangl saw upon arrival at Schloss Hartheim?

2. What was Hitler's speech about, as detailed in the fist chapter of Part Two of the book?

3. What body officially approved the four extermination camps and what was the name of each camp?

4. Why did Stangl stop in Chelm before going on to Sobibor?

5. What did Stangl reveal about his orders to report to T4 and his knowledge of T4's purpose?

6. What did the author learn about the former SS HQ when she visited the site in Lublin in March 1972?

7. How did Stanislaw Szmajzner become a goldsmith?

8. Describe Stangl's interview with SS officer Globocnik before Stangl was sent to Sobibor?

9. How did Professor Mayer end up writing the opinion about Catholic Church opposition to euthanasia?

10. What did the author mention about Hitler's new Europe from "Mein Kampf?"

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did Wirth's two week visit to Treblinka affect the camp? The victims? Stangl? The missing "loot"?

Essay Topic 2

In the Epilogue Sereny wrote, "Social morality is contingent upon the individual's capacity to make responsible decisions, to make the fundamental choice between right and wrong;..." Based on this statement, how did individual choices by Stangl and others in the book, either erode or strengthen social morality?

Essay Topic 3

Pope Pius XII was mostly silent on euthanasia and Jewish genocide by the Nazis. Why? Please cite personal and religious reasons. When he was no longer silent, what was the changing climate that he felt "safe" enough to issue statements of opposition for either form of genocide?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 732 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample