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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 14-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the summer of 1939, Hitler menacingly orders the eagle on the dome to clutch in its claws what?
(a) Not a globe but an olive leaf.
(b) Not a globe but a swastika.
(c) Not a swastika but a globe.
(d) Not a swastika but a snake.

2. As Dr. Fritz Todt's Ministry of Armaments faces overwhelming tasks, Speer volunteers to do what?
(a) Find him an assistant.
(b) Tell Hitler he needs more help.
(c) Assist him.
(d) Take over his job.

3. How old is Speer at this point?
(a) 28.
(b) 38.
(c) 30.
(d) 20.

4. How is Speer when he is called to rebuild the Berlin district headquarters?
(a) Still in architecture school.
(b) Busy with many projects.
(c) Building his career.
(d) Little involved in the Party and out of work.

5. Speer's Nuremberg building blends _________________________ but on a monumental scale.
(a) Troost's modernism and Tessenow's classicism.
(b) Tessenow's classicism and Troost's simplicity.
(c) Tessenow's modernism and Troost's simplicity.
(d) Troost's classicism and Tessenow's simplicity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who becomes too much for Hitler and ends some of his enjoyment?

2. In what does Hitler take little interest?

3. Opting out of a flight to Berlin, Speer survives the crash that kills who?

4. Speer grows prosperous but works too much to enjoy what?

5. Does Speer get time to acclimate to the job before a conference with the military and industry convened by Field Marshal Erhard Milch?

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