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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 do to political opponents shortly after his taking power?
(a) Imprisoned them.
(b) Killed them.
(c) Deported them.
(d) Bribed them.

2. What did the emergency decree passed by Hitler in 1933 put an end to?
(a) The Communist party.
(b) Freedom of speech and political parties.
(c) Freedom of speech, press, and assurances of privacy.
(d) Parties other than the Nazi party.

3. How long was Hitler's sentence after the failed coup of 1924?
(a) 13 months.
(b) 17 months.
(c) 15 months.
(d) 19 months.

4. What did Hitler do after the youth in attendance at the Hitler Youth Rally went by him?
(a) He went to dinner.
(b) He collapsed in exhaustion.
(c) He made a speech.
(d) He went back to Munich.

5. What happened after the 1930 elections for the Nazi party?
(a) It became the first party in the government.
(b) It collapsed.
(c) It changed its name.
(d) It became the second largest in the government.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the Nazi Party a problem for according to Ian Kershaw in "Emergence of the Leader"?

2. What does Ian Kershaw say most people in Germany were probably indifferent to?

3. How many youth attended the Hitler Youth Rally in 1932?

4. How long did it take for the youth in attendance at the Hitler Youth Rally to go by him?

5. What did Hitler do in Geneva according to Part 8 of "The Making of the Dictator"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How long did Hitler stay in prison and how was he released?

2. How did the German Worker's Party fare during Hitler's imprisonment?

3. Why did people join the Nazi party according to the story told in "Breakthrough"?

4. What did Hitler do while in prison in 1924?

5. What opened March 22, 1933, and what was its purpose?

6. What was the Night of the Long Knives?

7. Why were Nazi party members sentenced to death, and how did Hitler manage the situation according to "Levered into Power"?

8. How many women did Hitler have in his life according to Kershaw in "Mastery Over the Movement"?

9. Who was Paul von Breckendorff und von Hindenburg, and what happened to him in 1934?

10. Why did the German people accept what happened during the Night of the Long Knives?

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