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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. Who suggested buckets for women in the tube for defecation?

2. What is the name of the Polish diplomat who wrote a book about Pope Pius XII, entitled "Pius XII a Polski 1939-1949?"

3. Who as former administrative director of T4 implied that men more inferior than Germans volunteered for "Aktion T4" and "Aktion Reinhardt?"

4. Following his prison escape, Stangl made it to Rome and encountered a former comrade who had been in the security police in ____.

5. In the diagram for Treblinka there are labels for three camps, death, living and ____?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was Otto Horn's role in Treblinka?

4. What happened to Samuel Rajzman's little girl?

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

6. How did T4 psychiatrists view western Jews in relation to exterminating them?

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

8. How did Zabecki's wife deal with the cruelty of the human transports and escalating murders?

9. The author broke up conversations with Stangl into two parts, so what did she do in this interim time and how long was it?

10. How did the author describe Richard Glazar and his family when she visited his home in 1972?

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

What efforts did Stangl and others take to minimize the horror of the death camps for the victims as well as the camp workers? Be sure to include the false railway station in your responses. How effective were those efforts (support with details as described in the biography)?

Essay Topic 3

As Stangl described the killings and daily operations at the camps he oversaw, Sereny pointed out that she noticed the emergence of two Stangl identities. At several points in the biography Sereny observed that Stangl was one person when he was doing normal things and then another person when performing his "duties." Explain this dual personality as detailed in the book and then provide specific examples of each personality as observed or documented in the book.

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