Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Gitta Sereny
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Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Gitta Sereny
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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. After Stangl became a police officer in 1934, what official was assassinated?

2. 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?

3. In what year was the Chelmno extermination camp set up?

4. According to Stangl how old was the boy in the children's facility where the Mother Superior couldn't understand why the boy was rejected for a "mercy killing"?

5. What was the name of the young lawyer who was closely involved with the Euthanasia Programme, who became chief administrative officer at T4?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the Nazi plans for "Final Solution" come to be during the invasion of Russia?

2. Why did Stangl feel betrayed by testimony at his trial from Stanislaw Szmajzner?

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

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

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

6. How did Stangl's family come to stay in Chelm for a period of time while he was working at Sobibor?

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

8. How did Stanislaw Szmajzner become a goldsmith?

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

10. What did the Preface explain about why the author was doing this biography?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Stangl was assigned to Sobibor. How did that happen? Why didn't Stangl decline the assignment or at least get transferred once he was there? According to the book, what details were revealed to Stangl and others about Sobibor that showed the site to be an extermination camp? How did Stangl and the other workers handle that revelation?

Essay Topic 3

How did Wirth's two week visit to Treblinka affect the camp? The victims? Stangl? The missing "loot"?

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