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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Shirer stay in Czechoslovakia after Hitler's demands?
(a) To visit.
(b) For the food.
(c) To attend a Communist conference.
(d) To see if there would be a war.

2. Where did Tess Shirer leave for in September 1938?
(a) America.
(b) Austria.
(c) France.
(d) Germany.

3. How long ago did Shirer say the last military action took place in Part II, pgs. 248-289?
(a) 4 months.
(b) 2 months.
(c) 19 weeks.
(d) 3 weeks.

4. Who did Germany take off the air on October 19, 1939?
(a) CBS.
(b) NBC and CBS.
(c) CNN.
(d) ABC.

5. What did Shirer say he had to have approved by the German censors before broadcast in May 1937?
(a) His Hindenburg crash coverage.
(b) His concentration camp coverage.
(c) His coverage of worker's day.
(d) Hitler's speech coverage.

6. Where did Shirer meet Murrow on January 18, 1940?
(a) Paris.
(b) Amsterdam.
(c) Rotterdam.
(d) London.

7. Where did Shirer return on December 1, 1939?
(a) Geneva.
(b) Zurich.
(c) Prague.
(d) Berlin.

8. Where was the Royal Oak battleship when it was sunk by a German U-boat?
(a) The Mediteranean.
(b) The Atlantic.
(c) Scapa Flow.
(d) The Falkland.

9. What area did Hitler occupy in March 1936?
(a) France.
(b) Austria.
(c) Rhineland.
(d) Saar.

10. Where was Shirer on September 12, 1938?
(a) Paris.
(b) Prague.
(c) Madrid.
(d) Berlin.

11. Who does Shirer say came to him for help in going to England or America?
(a) Women.
(b) Jews.
(c) Homosexuals.
(d) Communists.

12. What did Shirer quote to say that Hitler was preparing for war?
(a) Mein Kampf.
(b) Hitler's speeches.
(c) The Nazi Party journals.
(d) The Bible.

13. What city did Shirer go to after Danzig?
(a) Warsaw.
(b) Prague.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Paris.

14. Where did Hitler give his speech after the surrender of the Poles?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Zurich.
(c) Danzig.
(d) Warsaw.

15. Until when did Shirer say Hitler would continue the war?
(a) As long as France and England continued the war.
(b) Germany was given a seat at the society of nations.
(c) Russia was defeated.
(d) France apologized.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the Nazis fight the Heimsehr?

2. Over what nation did Mussolini triumph in May 1936?

3. When did the Graf Spee sink?

4. Where did the Shirers and Knickerbockers vacation in June 1936?

5. What did Shirer say continued in Germany in Part II, pgs.248-289?

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