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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. How did Violet Sharpe avoid interrogation?

2. Where did the Lindberghs NOT have residences?

3. What did people question after Lindbergh's 1941 speech in Des Moines?

4. What cause did Lindbergh take up later in life?

5. What impression did Goering give Lindbergh of the Luftwaffe?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the conditions of Lindbergh's death.

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

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

4. What events undermined Lindbergh's political position?

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

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

7. What was found when Lindbergh's baby was discovered missing?

8. What was Lindbergh's political stance in the late 1930s?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

Essay Topic 2

What made Lindbergh susceptible to believing Goering's exaggerated estimate of the Luftwaffe's strength?

Essay Topic 3

What experiences in early life explain Lindbergh's embrace of white supremacist ideas later in life? What aspects of white supremacy were attractive to him?

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