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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 Hitler claimed to have done during his public speeches?
(a) Converted smart people.
(b) Made jokes.
(c) Bored people.
(d) Nationalized his audience.

2. What does Ian Kershaw say the army provided Hitler with?
(a) Friendships.
(b) Guns.
(c) Single minded people.
(d) A place to learn how to follow orders.

3. Who did Gustl bring back home that infuriated Hitler?
(a) A Jewish girl.
(b) A female student.
(c) A communist paper.
(d) Cigarettes.

4. What type of material did Hitler start buying at the end of "Drop-Out"?
(a) Anti-semitic material.
(b) Censored books.
(c) Communist material.
(d) Books from Jewish writers.

5. Who founded the German Workers' Party?
(a) Alois Hitler.
(b) Anton Drexler.
(c) Mark Grunn
(d) Anton Marsted.

Short Answer Questions

1. What foreign leader did Hitler want to emulate in the 1920s?

2. What does Ian Kershaw say was vital to the success of Hitler as a public speaker?

3. What was Hitler sentenced to in 1921?

4. What did Hitler become in Munich according to Part 4 of "Discovering a Talent"?

5. Who was Hitler moving to his new apartment with in Part II of "Elation and Embitterment"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Hitler do after clashes between the government and Communists according to Part 6 of "The Drummer"?

2. What was Hitler asked to tone down during his work in Mayr's office and why?

3. What school did Hitler try to apply to a second time?

4. What did Hitler do for a living after spending some time on the street according to "Drop-Out"?

5. What did Hitler say that one's stand on the Jewish question should be based on, and what was Hitler's stand?

6. What did Hitler's speech as chairman of the German Workers' Party call for?

7. What was Hitler's moral stand when he was living in Vienna?

8. Why wasn't Adolf named Schicklgruber according to "Fantasy and Failure"?

9. What did Hitler start reading after moving to Munich from Vienna according to Ian Kershaw?

10. Who does Kershaw say took little notice of Hitler's appointment as chairman of the German Workers' Party?

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