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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How far was Chelm from Sobibor?
(a) 25 km.
(b) 50 km.
(c) 10 km.
(d) 30 km.

2. 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) Brack.
(c) Himmler.
(d) Bouhler.

3. According to the author, who carried out the first gassing of Germans certified as incurably insane?
(a) Himmler.
(b) Reichleitner.
(c) Globocnik.
(d) Wirth.

4. Who was the former chief of the Church Information Service at the Reich Security Office?
(a) Max Thomas.
(b) Herr Allers.
(c) Suchomel.
(d) Albert Hartl.

5. According to Stangl, how many groups were he and others told were exempt from the Euthanasia "mercy killings"?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) None.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gassing continued at which lettered institute and according to Suchomel this site existed until the end of the war, even as American's crossed the Rhine in 1945?

2. Stan arrived in Sobibor and described for the author the division into how many "camps?"

3. Globocnik was almost arrested by a ____ patrol in Carinthia after the war.

4. Why did Stangl think the Jews were exterminated?

5. According to the author how many interview hours did she spend with Stangl?

Short Essay Questions

1. Only who had a chance of surviving the four death camps and how many actually survived?

2. What was the significance of placing all four death camps in Poland?

3. What were the sleeping arrangements at Sobibor the first few weeks after Stangl arrived?

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

5. As one of five men with medals, why was Stangl anxious within three days of the Nazis invading Austria?

6. Who was Brack in relation to T4 and Stangl?

7. With whom did the author discuss the evolution of the Euthanasia Programme?

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

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

10. What are a couple of early objections to euthanasia policy in German government according to the author's history of development of the program?

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