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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. Why did Stangl think the Jews were exterminated?

2. Another man closely connected with the Euthanasia Programme, Albert Hartl was a priest for how many years before joining the SS?

3. How many Jews did Wirth use to "test" the gassing chamber at Sobibor?

4. In the summer of what year was Hitler jeered by a crowd about the Euthanasia policies and practices?

5. In what year was Stangl sentenced to life imprisonment for war crimes?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Stangl stop in Chelm before going on to Sobibor?

2. In the first interview what did we learn about Stangl's tour of duty?

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

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

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

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

7. What was done in euthanasia institutes after T4 was officially stopped by Hitler?

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

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

10. What does the author describe for us about T4 and the facility used for T4 in the initial chapters of Part One of the book?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

At one point in the biography it was reported that one main reason for Hitler's rise to power was his promise to feed everyone. Discuss the food challenges during that time (people not sharing the wealth, people doing more than others). How did those food challenges affect the camps?

Essay Topic 2

In the Epilogue Sereny wrote, "Social morality is contingent upon the individual's capacity to make responsible decisions, to make the fundamental choice between right and wrong;..." Based on this statement, how did individual choices by Stangl and others in the book, either erode or strengthen social morality?

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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