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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. When did the Germans start bombing the Stromness and Kinkwall bases?
(a) March 17, 1941.
(b) March 18, 1940.
(c) June 17, 1940.
(d) March 17, 1940.

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

3. Who arrived in Berlin on November 12, 1940?
(a) Stalin.
(b) Molotov.
(c) Chamberlain.
(d) Shirer.

4. What did Shirer see as he arrived at his hotel on May 21, 1940?
(a) French bombers.
(b) German bombers.
(c) British bombers.
(d) Italian bombers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What city did Shirer say was under siege by Goering Luftwaffe?

2. Where did Shirer say the Germans were amassing troops on February 1940?

3. Who signed a peace agreement on March 13, 1949?

4. Who provided Shirer's transmitters for his reports on the war?

5. Where did the signing of the armistice between France and Germany take place?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the state of the media by September?

2. What did the Germans begin in mid-August?

3. What did Shirer notice when he traveled to the front on May 19?

4. Why was Shirer in Lausanne on April 23 and when did he return to Berlin?

5. What ceremony did Shirer cover on June 21?

6. What did Shirer conclude about the French and what did many feel?

7. What did a speech given by Roosevelt on June 11 promise?

8. How much of the Parisian population had fled in Part II, pgs. 409-450 when Shirer arrived in Paris?

9. What happened to the dismay of the Germans on November 6?

10. What did Shirer feel about the British?

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