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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Chancellor Bruning's successor?

2. How long did it take Russia to be defeated, as described in the beginning of the book?

3. What was the name of the newspaper purchased by Hitler's party?

4. What was the name of the young shopkeeper that came into Hitler's life after he was paroled?

5. What happened to Alois, Jr.?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happened when the U.S. Ambassador investigates Hitler?

3. What was family life like growing up for Adolf?

4. What changed for Rohm and Strasser after Hitler's trial?

5. When Adolf was little, what were his career aspirations?

6. What kinds of speeches did Hitler give early on in his rise to leadership of the Nazis?

7. What kind of reaction did Hitler get from the judge at his trial in Munich?

8. Describe the Nazi party's comeback after the election of February 1932.

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

10. What kind of scandals forced Rohm and Strasser to resign?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What kind of resistance formed against Hitler's Jewish concentration camps, and why wasn't it big enough to stop the mass killings that happened there?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the different ways Hitler manipulated the country into following his message of blaming the Jews.

Essay Topic 3

How did Hitler's controlling personality make him desire to not only conquer Germany, but all of Europe? Why was being the leader of Germany not good enough for him?

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