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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Dodd write a letter to in response to Phillips accusations?
(a) Roosevelt.
(b) Secretary Hum.
(c) Hitler.
(d) The Vice President.

2. Who didn't believe what Hitler told Dodd about world peace?
(a) Messersmith.
(b) Roosevelt.
(c) The State Department.
(d) Martha.

3. What did the State Department consider doing in Chapter 12?
(a) Evacuating all Americans from Germany.
(b) Forbidding Americans from traveling to Germany.
(c) Requiring visas for Nazi officials.
(d) Issuing a warning about traveling to Germany.

4. Why did Hitler order Rohm to be killed?
(a) He believed he was a homosexual.
(b) Rohm had a liaison with Martha.
(c) Rohm wanted to leave Germany.
(d) He believed him to be communist.

5. What was Erwin Wollstein arrested for?
(a) For loving a Jewish woman.
(b) For kicking a statue of Hitler.
(c) For making anti Nazi comments.
(d) For stealing a Nazi flag.

6. Which comment did Rohm make about Hitler that prompted him to say "We'll have to let the thing ripen"?
(a) That Hitler wanted to kill him.
(b) That France's military was weak.
(c) That Germany would be better off if it were free of Hitler.
(d) That Russia needed to give up land to Germany.

7. What did the "great Reichstag Building arson trial" prove to the world?
(a) That Goering was a fool.
(b) That Trials were free in Germany.
(c) That the Third Reich fixed the outcome of trials.
(d) That Hitler didn't like Communists.

8. What was Marinus van der Lubbe sentenced to?
(a) Life in prison.
(b) Deportation.
(c) 20 years hard labor.
(d) Death.

9. What did Fortune magazine refer to Dodd as in Chapter 28?
(a) A weak man.
(b) Man of the year.
(c) A cheapskate.
(d) A good man.

10. What did Mowrer refer to Messersmith as before departing Germany?
(a) Caligula.
(b) Caesar.
(c) Tiberius.
(d) Brutus.

11. What made the U.S. enter WW I, according to Dodd?
(a) The insistance of the French.
(b) The stupidity of German diplomacy.
(c) The will to take Germany's colonial empire.
(d) The money of the British.

12. What did Dodd encourage the State Department officials to do?
(a) Try to spy on other countries.
(b) Spend money on parties.
(c) Live frugally.
(d) Get him a raise.

13. Where did Hitler reassign Rohm's unit to?
(a) Reichstag security.
(b) Border control.
(c) Traffic.
(d) Ticketing.

14. Who did Dodd meet with in August according to Chapter 12?
(a) Hitler.
(b) Messersmith.
(c) Hindenburg.
(d) Himmler.

15. What did Dodd tell the reporters who met him at his return to the U.S. in Chapter 33?
(a) That war was not in the near future.
(b) That Hitler was a nice gentleman.
(c) That war was in the future,
(d) That we shall know peace in our time.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Franz von Papen position in the Nazi government according to Chapter 26?

2. What camp did the Quakers representative visited?

3. Why did Panofsky move family members in to the top floor of the house in Chapter 16?

4. What was disturbing to Dodd according to Chapter 21?

5. What did Messersmith think of Diels?

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