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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapters 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What teaches Speer how to adjust to adversity?
(a) His physical problems.
(b) His father.
(c) His poor upbringing.
(d) His school.

2. Does Speer become anti-Semitic?
(a) No.
(b) Only at first.
(c) Later in life.
(d) Yes.

3. When was Albert Speer born?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1905.
(d) 1895.

4. Driving to Nuremberg with Hitler, Speer sees mobs of cheering people slow the car as Hitler brags about what?
(a) How wealthy he is.
(b) How much fun his job is.
(c) How intelligent he is.
(d) Only Luther has so stirred Germans.

5. What door is opened upon Troost's death?
(a) The position of assistant to Hitler.
(b) The position for leader of the Armaments Ministry.
(c) The position of treasurer.
(d) The position for primary architect.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what does Hitler take little interest?

2. Chapter 6, "The Greatest Assignment," opens with Hitler choosing to ally with Italy over ____________ and seizing the Rhineland while still lacking an army or air force.

3. Speer's Nuremberg building blends _________________________ but on a monumental scale.

4. Had Speer known about Hitler's intentions, what would he have done?

5. Speer redesigns Zeppelin Field in Nuremberg as ________________ stone structure destined to remain for ages as a witness to the greatness of the builders' epoch.

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