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

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

3. Shortly after Stangl's wife found him in a prison in Bad Ischl, he was transferred to a huge camp where?

4. What was the German term for Austria as a province of the Third Reich?

5. What was the name of Hitler's interpreter in Rome who described Hitler as "incredibly receptive to information?"

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the Lazarett at Treblinka?

2. Who was Dr Dollmann?

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

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

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

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

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 did Glazar describe the Nazi death camps as the "perfect machine?"

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

10. According to the author how did Stangl change when he had to talk about "intolerable" details of events?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Albert Hartl, after a tour of duty killing Jews and others, was freed from his duties, with pension, after a disputed mental breakdown. Compare that man's situation with Franz Stangl's. Did Stangl have same options? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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