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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 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.

2. What did Shirer say continued in Germany in Part II, pgs.248-289?
(a) Execution of traitors.
(b) The building of concentration camps.
(c) Massing troops on the French border.
(d) The military build-up.

3. What French prime minister resigned after the demonstration Shirer described in Part I, pgs. 4-44?
(a) Doumergue.
(b) Chamberlain.
(c) Daladier.
(d) De Gaulle.

4. Where did the Shirers and Knickerbockers vacation in June 1936?
(a) Austria.
(b) Germany.
(c) Yugoslavia.
(d) France.

5. When did the rationing of food in Germany start?
(a) End of June 1939.
(b) Start of August 1939.
(c) End of August 1939.
(d) End of August 1940.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Czechoslovakia refuse to do after the British/Germany meeting in September 1938?

2. When was Shirer offered a position in Berlin?

3. Who did Shirer start to work for on October 1, 1937?

4. What did most of the correspondents at the Taverne feel that the French could do in March 1936 according to Shirer?

5. What pact did Hitler use as an excuse to violate a treaty in March 1936?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part I, pgs. 44-83, what did Hitler disregard and what argument was made?

2. What did Shirer do on January 8, 1940?

3. What did Hitler say in his speech on September 17 according to Part II, pgs. 207-248?

4. What did Shirer inform the Germans of?

5. What broadcast did Shirer do in May 1937?

6. What made the German people realize how close the war was?

7. What happened on November 7 and 8?

8. What happened on April 10, 1938?

9. What happened on September 30?

10. What happened when Shirer returned home to Geneva and what arrangement did Murrow make according to Part II, pgs. 248-289?

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