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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 trying to get himself reassigned at the Linz police station at the end of the war, Stangl was denied and sent to where?

2. With what Gregorian University professor did the author discuss the Holy See and National Socialism?

3. Who were the psychiatrists, professors at T4?

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

5. What camp survivor lives in Switzerland in a farmhouse with his family, according to the author?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who was Dr Dollmann?

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

4. Who was the boy Edek?

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

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

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

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

9. Who was Franciszek Zabecki?

10. How did T4 psychiatrists view eastern Jews in relation to exterminating them?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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