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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hartl joined the SS in what year?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1945.

2. Which work-Jew was a goldsmith from a young age?
(a) Stan.
(b) Karel.
(c) Joe.
(d) Zhelo.

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

4. At the Euthanasia locations, Suchomel was responsible for archiving records in what format?
(a) Audio.
(b) Written.
(c) Film.
(d) Photographic.

5. How old was Stangl when the author met with him for the first interviews?
(a) 63.
(b) 58.
(c) 62.
(d) 75.

6. In what year did Globocnik commit suicide?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1943.

7. Despite denials, who, according to the author, was shown to be involved in the planning of the death camps to exterminate the Jews as early as 1941?
(a) Globocnik.
(b) Himmler.
(c) Brack.
(d) Bouhler.

8. According to Stangl, who signed the order sending him to Berlin?
(a) Hitler.
(b) Himmler.
(c) Wirth.
(d) Globocnik.

9. Who chaired the Wannsee Conference in January 1942 that officially approved of the extermination program?
(a) Dr. Karl Brandt.
(b) Christian Wirth.
(c) Dieter Allers.
(d) Reinhardt Heydrich.

10. What is the name of the officer that revealed, in drunkenness, what went on at Sobibor to Stangl's wife?
(a) Kurt Franz.
(b) Miete.
(c) Ludwig.
(d) Hartl.

11. In October 1941 Stangl was sent to "clean up" what Euthanasia institute?
(a) Sonnenstein.
(b) Bernburg.
(c) Hartheim.
(d) Hadamar.

12. What was the name of Stangl's sister-in-law?
(a) Helene.
(b) Theresa.
(c) Tchechia.
(d) Maritza.

13. In what year was the Chelmno extermination camp set up?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1942.

14. The Dusseldorf court sentenced Stangl to life imprisonment for co-responsibility in how many murders?
(a) 500,000.
(b) 900,000.
(c) 1 million.
(d) 137,457.

15. Another man closely connected with the Euthanasia Programme, Albert Hartl was a priest for how many years before joining the SS?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 8.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the author met Stangl how long had he been in prison, which was mostly spent in solitary confinement?

2. Whose final accounting about "Aktion Reinhardt" is mentioned by the author in the beginning of Part Two of the biography?

3. What year did Hitler write "Mein Kampf" containing his new Europe concept based on racial theories?

4. According to the author, there were six institutes/facilities where gassing took place under the Euthanasia policies, but how many were operational at any given time?

5. Besides, Suchomel, who else does the author mention as defending that Stangl did not carry a gun, but a small whip only?

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