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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. When in 1942 did Stangl order the construction of the fake railway station at Treblinka?
2. Who took photographs of an August 21st transport to Treblinka that were part of the evidence at the trial of the ten Treblinka guards in Dusseldorf?
3. Besides Miete and Mentz, what other Germans camp officers were described as "the terrible" "sadistic" ones by a camp survivor?
4. Following his prison escape, Stangl made it to Rome and encountered a former comrade who had been in the security police in ____.
5. Where did the family sharing the railway station with Pan Zabecki and his family send their kids to for safety?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did the author describe Richard Glazar and his family when she visited his home in 1972?
2. Who was the boy Edek?
3. How did Horst Munzberger try to help his father during his trial?
4. How did Zabecki's wife deal with the cruelty of the human transports and escalating murders?
5. What was the Lazarett at Treblinka?
6. According to the author how did Stangl change when he had to talk about "intolerable" details of events?
7. Why did Stangl's wife make a weekly six hour round trip by train between Wels and Glasenbach?
8. How did Stangl come in contact with Tchechia?
9. From the Treblinka Camp diagram and Legend what were the main camp divisions?
10. Why was Stangl's wife shocked by Father Mario's response to her talk about her husband under confessional?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What did the first few interviews of Stangl by Sereny reveal about Stangl's state of mind during the initial phase of the interview process? What details about Stangl's incarceration before the interviews began also provide a picture about Stangl's state of mind and what does this picture look like? Why did Sereny seem hopeful that interviews with Stangl would bear fruit once she discovered how bright and masterful Stangl appeared to be?
Essay Topic 2
Explain the similarities and differences between Extermination and Concentration camps for Jews. Discuss layouts, length of time before typically closing a site, daily operations, survival rates, workers, etc.
Essay Topic 3
At one point in the book it was observed that just as the prisoners were trying to survive the camps, so were Franz Stangl and the other free men assigned to work at Treblinka. What details in the book illustrate that point, and how was this cultivation for survival reflected in their attitudes, daily operations, etc.?
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