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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. Who is Stangl's youngest child?
2. 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?
3. To whom did the Polish Ambassador personally hand a letter about the Jewish genocide for the Pope on December 21, 1942?
4. What was the name of the red-blonde Jew Stangl asked about her room choice?
5. During Glazar's conversations with the author, what color is the "lovely" glass jar on the shelf with the Treblinka earth in the bottom?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Hubert Pfoch manage to get pictures of Treblinka transports later used as evidence in the trial of ten guards?
2. How did T4 psychiatrists view eastern Jews in relation to exterminating them?
3. What happened to Glazar's two step-brothers from his mother's remarriage?
4. Why did Glazar describe the Nazi death camps as the "perfect machine?"
5. How did Rome figure in Stangl's escape to another country?
6. Why was Stangl's wife shocked by Father Mario's response to her talk about her husband under confessional?
7. What was ironic to Glazar and Unger about Mannheim?
8. Who was Father Burckhardt Schneider?
9. What happened to Samuel Rajzman's little girl?
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
How did Wirth's two week visit to Treblinka affect the camp? The victims? Stangl? The missing "loot"?
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
In initial interviews Stangl talked about his life in Austria with his parents, his new career, and the changing political atmosphere of his country as the 1938 invasion approached. What was going on in Stangl's life? How did he seem to interact with his parents? Co-workers? His new wife? How did these interactions shed light on Stangl the man?
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