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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. According to Stangl, who spent two weeks reorganizing Treblinka?

2. In an accounting from Glazar, who enjoyed whipping the camp prisoners bare buttocks?

3. What Polish prisoner insisted it was important that the group of six "Czech" prisoners survive?

4. To whom did the Polish Ambassador personally hand a letter about the Jewish genocide for the Pope on December 21, 1942?

5. How long was the round trip from the flat to prison when Stangl's wife said she took him food parcels?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to Glazar's two step-brothers from his mother's remarriage?

2. Why was Stangl's wife shocked by Father Mario's response to her talk about her husband under confessional?

3. How did Otto Horn describe Gustav Munzberger's job at Treblinka?

4. How did Hubert Pfoch manage to get pictures of Treblinka transports later used as evidence in the trial of ten guards?

5. How did T4 psychiatrists view eastern Jews in relation to exterminating them?

6. How did Horst Munzberger try to help his father during his trial?

7. What impressions did the author carry away about Sobibor and Treblinka after her visits, as described in the first chapter of Part Three?

8. From the Treblinka Camp diagram and Legend what were the main camp divisions?

9. What was the Lazarett at Treblinka?

10. What was ironic to Glazar and Unger about Mannheim?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why were Western and Eastern Jews treated so differently at the camps? What were the differences in the two groups? How did these differences affect each groups' perceptions of 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

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?

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