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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Into That Darkness: Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long did Hartl convalesce after a nervous breakdown before being discharged from the SS?
(a) 4 months.
(b) 1 week.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 12 months.

2. Sobibor became fully operational in May of what year?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1940.

3. According to Stangl when he was assigned to the T4 facility he was told that the "mercy killing" policies were already being done by law in Russia and where?
(a) America.
(b) Switzerland.
(c) France.
(d) Italy.

4. Why did Stangl think the Jews were exterminated?
(a) Religion.
(b) Inferiority.
(c) Politics.
(d) Money.

5. In what year was Stangl sentenced to life imprisonment for war crimes?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1970.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the special department created to handle Hitler's private affairs and personal petitions?

2. Between 1941 and 1944 it is estimated the Nazis killed how many Russian civilians in the first steps of their genocide of "inferior races" plans?

3. According to the author, who carried out the first gassing of Germans certified as incurably insane?

4. Colonel Blobel remarked as he laughingly pointed to mass graves along a ravine, that "here lie my ___ Jews."

5. Who chaired the Wannsee Conference in January 1942 that officially approved of the extermination program?

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