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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many people survived the four Nazi death camps?

3. At a camp halfway between Chelm and Sobibor, Stangl visited and found workers under whose supervision?

4. At the Euthanasia locations, Suchomel was responsible for archiving records in what format?

5. In what year did Globocnik commit suicide?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why were concentration camps originally set up as opposed to extermination camps, according to the author?

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

4. How did Stanislaw Szmajzner describe the Sobibor camp set-up?

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 the Nazi plans for "Final Solution" come to be during the invasion of Russia?

8. How did Stanislaw Szmajzner become a goldsmith?

9. What events occurred in Stangl's life after he became a policeman, but just before the Nazis invaded his homeland?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

As Stangl described the killings and daily operations at the camps he oversaw, Sereny pointed out that she noticed the emergence of two Stangl identities. At several points in the biography Sereny observed that Stangl was one person when he was doing normal things and then another person when performing his "duties." Explain this dual personality as detailed in the book and then provide specific examples of each personality as observed or documented in the book.

Essay Topic 2

Stangl and his wife endured long degrees of physical separation. How did that affect their marriage? Their family, with the kids? Each of them individually?

Essay Topic 3

Sereny observed that Stangl experienced moral degradation and a personality change while working the death camps. On what details did the author base those observations? Are they sufficient to support the observation?

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