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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. After the war when Stangl recovered from an illness while in a field hospital he was given orders to report to where?

2. What was the age of the oldest child sharing the railway station at Treblinka with Pan Zabecki and his family?

3. What was the name of the work-Jew Stangl assigned to cook in the lower camp, and also let him feed his 82 year old father a last meal before he was killed with the others?

4. According to the author, who tells her the most information about Stangl and his family's life the two years following the end of the war?

5. In what month of 1942 did the exiled Polish government release a report detailing the mass murder of Jews since the German invasion?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How did Stangl describe his arrival at Treblinka?

9. How did Rome figure in Stangl's escape to another country?

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

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

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

Stangl was assigned to Sobibor. How did that happen? Why didn't Stangl decline the assignment or at least get transferred once he was there? According to the book, what details were revealed to Stangl and others about Sobibor that showed the site to be an extermination camp? How did Stangl and the other workers handle that revelation?

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