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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. Why does Speer build grand halls and salons?
(a) To impress his family.
(b) To promote his work.
(c) To impresss Hitler.
(d) To impress on dignitaries that Hitler is "one of the greatest men in history."

2. Speer hears that he is considered headstrong and is forbidden to do what?
(a) Return to work.
(b) Rejoin Hitler's inner circle.
(c) Resign.
(d) Be in charge of any organization.

3. How long does Speer spend in a hospital?
(a) Two months.
(b) Six weeks.
(c) Two weeks.
(d) One month.

4. Hearing Hitler's voice, Maj. Remer who commands the troops surrounding Goebbels' Ministry, declares his loyalty and by ______ has crushed the plot.
(a) 7 PM.
(b) 8 PM.
(c) 10 PM.
(d) 9 PM.

5. Who does Hitler say will be the loser of the war?
(a) The side that makes the greatest blunders.
(b) Those who mock him.
(c) The Allies.
(d) The Germans.

Short Answer Questions

1. News of the Allied invasion of __________ is taken as a feint for a thrust at undefended Italy or southern France.

2. Hitler talks of making __________ a metropolis and retiring there.

3. Speer does away with piecemeal production, embraces "industrial mass production," and eliminates department chiefs' setting of independent priorities. Some complain of his __________ methods, but Hitler appreciates impulsive genius.

4. Driving to Nuremberg with Hitler, Speer sees mobs of cheering people slow the car as Hitler brags about what?

5. Speer goes beyond Hitler's "megalomaniacal notions" in planning urban renewal with a free hand and rescues two international events after the original designers offend Hitler's aesthetics. What are these two events?

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