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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What caused Hitler's blindness in the beginning of the book?
(a) He was born that way.
(b) An Allied attack by poison gas shells.
(c) Disease.
(d) Gunpowder.

2. When the book begins, what is described in the trenches of Belgium?
(a) Hitler's relatives.
(b) American soldiers.
(c) 16th Bavarian Infantry Regiment.
(d) German landscape.

3. Who did General von Schleicher think he could use Hitler against?
(a) The Bavarian government.
(b) England.
(c) The Communists.
(d) Russia.

4. What political tendencies did Josef Goebbels have?
(a) Democratic.
(b) Communist.
(c) Socialist.
(d) Nazi.

5. Who was the new dictator of Italy during Hitler's rise to power in Germany?
(a) Mussolini.
(b) Vito.
(c) Stalin.
(d) King Edward.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the German mark in October 1923?

2. On what date was Hitler named Chancellor in 1933?

3. When was Hitler put on trial in Munich?

4. What was the young shopkeeper's relationship to Hitler?

5. When did Hitler decide to become a politician?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Hitler's relationship with Hanfstaengl?

2. How did Hitler care for his mother when he was just a teen?

3. When Adolf moves to Linz when he is a teenager, what did he dream about becoming?

4. What do readers learn in the beginning of the book about Hitler's interest in politics?

5. What was Hitler's relationship with his roommate Kubizek?

6. How did Hitler try to split the Bavarian leadership?

7. Describe the infamous Mefo-bill scheme.

8. Where does the name Hitler come from?

9. Why did Hitler feel Goebbels needed to be brought under control in the late 1920s?

10. How did Hitler's carefulness about his radical program pay off in 1928?

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