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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. In his last radio address Hitler rejects what and then withdraws to the old Party clique, grasping at straws and insisting that nothing but desert be left to the victors?
(a) The Atlantic Conference's demands.
(b) The Cherchell Conference's demands.
(c) The Third Moscow Conference's demands.
(d) The Yalta Conference's demands.

2. Of what is Speer found guilty?
(a) Requisitioning foreign workers and not caring for them adequately.
(b) Allowing concentration camp victims to be used for slave labor.
(c) Fighting the Allied forces.
(d) Being a member of Hitler's inner circle.

3. Hitler refuses to believe that who cannot overrun the Americans?
(a) The Soviets.
(b) The elite SS.
(c) The Japanese.
(d) The average German soldier.

4. When does a massive Allied bombing occur?
(a) On April 12, 1944.
(b) On January 12, 1944.
(c) On September 12, 1944.
(d) On November 12, 1944.

5. Speer regards his life as what?
(a) Concluded.
(b) Being cleansed.
(c) Starting over.
(d) Just beginning.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hitler is more shaken by damage reports than __________ and orders impossible repairs of theaters to keep up public morale.

2. Speer wonders if he looks as rundown as who?

3. After coldly rejecting Speer's plan for a joint operation with the Air Force, Hitler visits the sickroom, hearing what?

4. Ley and Himmler both challenge Speer's authority at Peenemünde during what?

5. Hitler is euphoric at New Year's _______.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Speer convince Hitler to do regarding Russian prisoners? Why is this, in the end, not necessary?

2. What does Hitler do when he ignores Speer's calls to cripple key Allied resources? How does he then calm Speer's fears of an armaments collapse?

3. What is Himmler's reaction at the end of the war?

4. How does Chapter 28 open?

5. What does Hitler do regarding the Todt Organization's building of defensive positions on the Dnieper? Why does he do this? How does this affect Germany?

6. What happens to Speer and the other defendants at Nuremberg?

7. How does Chapter 33 open, regarding Doenitz?

8. How does Chapter 27 open?

9. How does Chapter 29 find Speer?

10. What takes place while Speer recovers for six weeks?

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