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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. Where was Passau?

2. What was the scandal involving Rohm that caused Hitler to lose the 1932 election?

3. Who agreed to support Hitler's takeover once he had the Bavarian leadership under the gun?

4. What caused Hitler's blindness in the beginning of the book?

5. Did Goring get the loan he wanted when he went to Venice?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. After Hitler was barred from public speaking, where did he go on a holiday and who did he meet?

3. What did the newspaper, Volkischer Beobachter, become to the Nazi party?

4. What was Hitler's relationship with his roommate Kubizek?

5. Describe the infamous Mefo-bill scheme.

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

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

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

9. Why did Hitler feel Goebbels needed to be brought under control in the late 1920s?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Hitler took advantage of the problems in Germany to blame the Jews and help his rise to power. Explore why you think people were so desperate for a new leader. What kinds of government problems had filtered down to the average citizen?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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?

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