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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Speer tries not to look like what to the staff?
(a) An American.
(b) A nervous leader.
(c) An intruder.
(d) An unintelligent leader.

2. Hitler is unwilling to risk a revolution like ____________.
(a) 1918.
(b) 1881.
(c) 1908.
(d) 1891.

3. Does Speer read MEIN KAMPF?
(a) The first half.
(b) No.
(c) One page.
(d) Yes.

4. What else does Hitler enjoy?
(a) Drives to Berlin.
(b) Drives to Dresden.
(c) Drives to Frankfort.
(d) Drives to Königssee.

5. Does Speer get time to acclimate to the job before a conference with the military and industry convened by Field Marshal Erhard Milch?
(a) No.
(b) Yes, some time.
(c) Yes, but very little time.
(d) Yes, a great deal of time.

6. When Hitler first meets Margarete at an official reception, he predicts that her husband will erect buildings unseen in how many years?
(a) 400.
(b) 4.
(c) 4,000.
(d) 40.

7. Speer notes that great building in antiquity is normally done by whom?
(a) Artists.
(b) The wealthy.
(c) Despots.
(d) Famous architects.

8. Hitler refuses Speer's call to employ who in factories?
(a) Children.
(b) Jews.
(c) Catholics.
(d) Women.

9. How many people attend Hitler's daily afternoon dinners at which he is harsher than at Obersalzberg, offering monologues that show little growth since his "fertile" youth?
(a) 40-50.
(b) 400-500.
(c) 4-5.
(d) 10-20.

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

11. What does Speer inherit?
(a) Milch's ministries and the Milch Organization.
(b) Goebbels' ministries and the Goebbels Organization.
(c) Goering's ministries and the Goering Organization.
(d) Todt's ministries and the Todt Organization.

12. Who becomes too much for Hitler and ends some of his enjoyment?
(a) Martin Bormann.
(b) Eva Braun.
(c) Speer.
(d) His adoring crowds.

13. Top figures in industry and government endorse Speer's scheme, and despite Goering's threat to resign as head of the Four-Year Plan and Speer's promise to work within his framework, Hitler gives Speer what?
(a) Dictatorial power over the Armaments Ministry.
(b) Dictatorial power over the economy.
(c) Some power over the Armaments Ministry.
(d) Some power over the economy.

14. Seeing his forces encircled at Stalingrad, Hitler forbids what?
(a) The Fourth Army to break out.
(b) The Seventh Army to break out.
(c) The Sixth Army to break out.
(d) The Tenth Army to break out.

15. Hitler talks of making __________ a metropolis and retiring there.
(a) Zempelburg.
(b) Linz.
(c) Czarmun.
(d) Heidelberg.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Albert Speer born?

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

3. The new Reichstag would be the world's greatest assembly hall but has no ___________.

4. When can Speer and his associates work on designs?

5. Hitler calls for making Berlin so beautiful that no one will care if what happens?

(see the answer keys)

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