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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What shortage did Shirer describe as being worse than ever?
(a) Oil.
(b) Food.
(c) Coal.
(d) Iron.

2. What did Shirer say Germany could not survive?
(a) The propaganda war.
(b) The economic war.
(c) The war on terror.
(d) The military war.

3. What did Shirer say many of the journalists did in Belgium?
(a) Fled to England.
(b) Found memorabilia of the war.
(c) Shopped for things impossible to find in Germany.
(d) Transmitted news without censors.

4. When did the Germans start their air attack of England?
(a) Mid August.
(b) Mid September.
(c) Mid June.
(d) Mid October.

5. When did Hitler offer peace to Britain?
(a) July 15, 1941.
(b) June 15, 1940.
(c) July 19, 1940.
(d) July 15, 1940.

6. How did Germany justify their entering Holland, Belgium and Luxemburg?
(a) They were supporting France and Britain.
(b) They were not supporting Germany.
(c) They were planning on invading Germany.
(d) England and France were planning to invade through them.

7. When did Britain give its answer to Hitler's peace offering?
(a) July 30.
(b) July 24.
(c) July 29.
(d) July 22.

8. What was required of the French delegation in order to sign an armistice with Italy?
(a) Speak only Italian.
(b) Travel to Nice.
(c) Give away their Navy.
(d) Fly to Italy.

9. What did Shirer notice when visiting the front on May 20, 1940?
(a) They were abandoning their equipment.
(b) They were surrendering.
(c) There were no Allied airplanes to direct the firing.
(d) They were not fighting.

10. Where did Hitler and Mussolini meet on October 4, 1940?
(a) Bremer.
(b) Zurich.
(c) Rome.
(d) Berlin.

11. Who did Shirer meet at the hotel after arriving in Paris in June 1940?
(a) Elis Swetmann.
(b) Ken Brokman.
(c) Murrow.
(d) Walter Kerr and Demaree Bess.

12. What did Shirer say the Germans attempted on September 16, 1940?
(a) Invasion of Russia.
(b) To enter Spain.
(c) A landing in England.
(d) Negotiating the surrender of Gibraltar.

13. What illness did Shirer catch in Part II, pgs. 289-330?
(a) Small pox.
(b) A common cold.
(c) The flu.
(d) Gangrene.

14. Who provided Shirer's transmitters for his reports on the war?
(a) The BBC.
(b) The Germans.
(c) The French.
(d) The Polish.

15. When did Shirer say he and other journalists traveled to the front in Belgium and Holland?
(a) May 19, 1941.
(b) May 19, 1940.
(c) June 19, 1940.
(d) May 9, 1940.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Shirer notice when he visited the Calais front?

2. Where did Shirer want Tess and Eileen to go following Germany's move against the Benelux countries?

3. Where was Shirer on September 16, 1940?

4. What right did the broadcaster have regarding censorship?

5. When were the Germans entering Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg?

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