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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. Pfoch's diary account of the Treblinka transport he photographed, witnessed and traveled behind as a young soldier included a count of how many people rammed into each railway car?
(a) 250.
(b) 180.
(c) 200.
(d) 100.

2. Jewish Socialist Bund leader Szmul Zygielbojm escaped from where, after his wife and children were killed, before broadcasting the horrors of Jewish extermination as a witness on the BBC?
(a) Germany.
(b) Austria.
(c) Poland.
(d) Russia.

3. What was the age of the oldest child sharing the railway station at Treblinka with Pan Zabecki and his family?
(a) 12.
(b) 5.
(c) 8.
(d) 10.

4. The deportation of Roman Jews occurred when according to the author?
(a) 1942-1944.
(b) 1939-1941.
(c) 1941-1942.
(d) 1943-1944.

5. During Glazar's conversations with the author, what color is the "lovely" glass jar on the shelf with the Treblinka earth in the bottom?
(a) Blue.
(b) Clear.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Green.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author stayed with a camp survivor and his family at their farmhouse in Switzerland in what year?

2. For the planned Treblinka uprising, who was another targeted SS officer for death by the prisoners, besides Mentz?

3. According to Stangl, who spent two weeks reorganizing Treblinka?

4. What is Stangl's birth month and day?

5. Who was the Bishop of Munster who engaged in public protest of Hitler's anti-Church and Euthanasia activities in 1941?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Glazar describe the Nazi death camps as the "perfect machine?"

2. How did Stangl respond upon the author's return in June and who did the author bring with her this time?

3. How did T4 psychiatrists view eastern Jews in relation to exterminating them?

4. From the Treblinka Camp diagram and Legend what were the main camp divisions?

5. What happened to Samuel Rajzman's little girl?

6. What impressions did the author carry away about Sobibor and Treblinka after her visits, as described in the first chapter of Part Three?

7. How did the author describe Richard Glazar and his family when she visited his home in 1972?

8. How did Horst Munzberger try to help his father during his trial?

9. How did T4 psychiatrists view western Jews in relation to exterminating them?

10. Who was the boy Edek?

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