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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. What was Lindbergh's estimation of Nazi Germany?
(a) A necessary evil.
(b) An invincible military force.
(c) A threat to civilization.
(d) A force for progress.

2. What prize did Lindbergh's autobiography win?
(a) The Nobel Prize for Literature.
(b) The National Book Critics Circle Award.
(c) The Congressional Medal of Honor.
(d) The Pulitzer Prize.

3. What was Lindbergh's advice to England and America?
(a) Not to engage German planes.
(b) To crush Germany's air force before it got too powerful.
(c) To attack weaknesses in Germany's air defense.
(d) To sanction Germany until it demilitarized.

4. Who was Dwight Morrow?
(a) U.S. Ambassador to Mexico.
(b) An aviation advocate.
(c) A pilot.
(d) A Senator from Wisconsin.

5. What was the result of the controversy?
(a) Air mail remained privatized.
(b) Air mail was regulated.
(c) Air mail contracts were bid on first.
(d) Air mail became a federal service.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Denenberg say Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh tried to do between the kidnapping the Hauptmann's execution?

2. Where did this journey take Lindbergh?

3. What was the title of Lindbergh's autobiography?

4. What did the media call the Lindberghs' estate in Hopewell?

5. What was the subject of the controversy Lindbergh was embroiled in in 1934?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Lindbergh's opinion of Germany change the public's view of him?

2. Describe the Lindberghs' literary successes after World War II.

3. What events undermined Lindbergh's political position?

4. What did Lindbergh do to turn people decisively against him?

5. What did Lindbergh see in his visits to Germany?

6. What efforts did the Lindberghs have to take to avoid the press?

7. What criticism was leveled at the Lindberghs after the birth of their second son?

8. Describe the resurgence of Lindbergh's popularity in the 1960s.

9. How does Denenberg characterize the Lindberghs' lives during the 1950s and 60s?

10. What role did Lindbergh's wife play in Lindbergh's thinking in the buildup to World War II?

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