View a FREE sample

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Dieter Allers told the author that there were _____ Euthanasia Programme workers, all sent to Russia after the "mercy killings" stopped.

2. What was the name of Stangl's friend who was sent to a concentration camp for asking to be relieved from duty?

3. Who was eventually commissioned to write the Euthanasia opposition opinion regarding the Catholic Church?

4. On the fourth day of interviews Stangl began talking about his travels with how many people from the "Foundation"?

5. Who signed the travel documents for Stangl's wife and kids to travel home from living near Sobibor?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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. Describe Stangl's interview with SS officer Globocnik before Stangl was sent to Sobibor?

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

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

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

9. What body officially approved the four extermination camps and what was the name of each camp?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What changes in the political climate affected Franz Stangl after he became a policeman? How did Stangl respond to those changes and how did his responses affect his career as a policeman?

Essay Topic 2

Frau Stangl wanted her husband to escape his prison situation and he was reluctant. How did this compare to earlier in the book when a man told some Jews he has in the woods he would rather they run off than get killed, but the Jews came back anyway? How did Frau Stangl convince her husband to finally leave his prison situation?

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?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 849 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample