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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. In what year did Pope Pius XI raise serious concerns about the Nazi's educational reforms and to some extent the subject of racism and "neo-paganism" of National Socialism?

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

3. Who were the psychiatrists, professors at T4?

4. In what year did the Vatican begin publication of the volumes containing a variety of documents related to events occurring between 1939 and 1945?

5. Who was the Bishop of Munster who engaged in public protest of Hitler's anti-Church and Euthanasia activities in 1941?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Stangl respond upon the author's return in June and who did the author bring with her this time?

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

3. Why was Pope Pius XI concerned about National Socialism?

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

5. Why did Stangl's wife make a weekly six hour round trip by train between Wels and Glasenbach?

6. Who was Franciszek Zabecki?

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

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

10. How did Stangl come in contact with Tchechia?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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