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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapters 23-26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Does Speer get time to acclimate to the job before a conference with the military and industry convened by Field Marshal Erhard Milch?
(a) No.
(b) Yes, some time.
(c) Yes, a great deal of time.
(d) Yes, but very little time.

2. Top figures in industry and government endorse Speer's scheme, and despite Goering's threat to resign as head of the Four-Year Plan and Speer's promise to work within his framework, Hitler gives Speer what?
(a) Dictatorial power over the Armaments Ministry.
(b) Dictatorial power over the economy.
(c) Some power over the Armaments Ministry.
(d) Some power over the economy.

3. Seeing his forces encircled at Stalingrad, Hitler forbids what?
(a) The Tenth Army to break out.
(b) The Fourth Army to break out.
(c) The Seventh Army to break out.
(d) The Sixth Army to break out.

4. Once Hitler sees a military angle, he pushes production and Himmler offers who as workers?
(a) Military prisoners.
(b) His SS men.
(c) His family.
(d) Concentration camp prisoners.

5. After coldly rejecting Speer's plan for a joint operation with the Air Force, Hitler visits the sickroom, hearing what?
(a) Speer is dying.
(b) Speer is lonely.
(c) Speer has asked for him.
(d) Speer is depressed.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what does Hitler know he is destined?

2. What happens when Hitler encourages servility among his entourage?

3. When did Col. Claus von Stauffenberg try to assassinate Hitler?

4. Chapter 6, "The Greatest Assignment," opens with Hitler choosing to ally with Italy over ____________ and seizing the Rhineland while still lacking an army or air force.

5. Fromm orders summary courts martial and execution of the conspirators, including who?

(see the answer key)

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