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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. Where did the family sharing the railway station with Pan Zabecki and his family send their kids to for safety?

2. Treblinka was "obliterated" by the Germans in what year?

3. Glazar talked about four phases of a year spent in Treblinka, including the few months before the uprising which occurred in what year?

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. When Stangl traveled to his mother at the end of the war, she was in a town called Ebernsee, near _____.

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the Lazarett at Treblinka?

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

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

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

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

6. How did Stangl come in contact with Tchechia?

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

8. Who was Franciszek Zabecki?

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

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

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 was Stangl's post-war life like with his family? in Damascus? Syria? Brazil?

Essay Topic 3

Sereny observed that Stangl found working at the death camps emotionally and psychologically straining and unpleasant. Using details from the biography, provide several pages supporting this observation.

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