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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 19-22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Speer notes that great building in antiquity is normally done by whom?
(a) Despots.
(b) Artists.
(c) The wealthy.
(d) Famous architects.

2. 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?
(a) The Olympic Stadium and the pavilion at the St. Louis World's Fair.
(b) The Government Buildings and the pavilion at the St. Louis World's Fair.
(c) The Government Buildings and the pavilion at the Paris World's Fair.
(d) The Olympic Stadium and the pavilion at the Paris World's Fair.

3. How many people attend Hitler's daily afternoon dinners at which he is harsher than at Obersalzberg, offering monologues that show little growth since his "fertile" youth?
(a) 4-5.
(b) 10-20.
(c) 400-500.
(d) 40-50.

4. 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 economy.
(b) Dictatorial power over the Armaments Ministry.
(c) Some power over the Armaments Ministry.
(d) Some power over the economy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Through a detailed model of Berlin, Hitler loves to "enter his avenue" to do what?

2. Although Speer is turned off by Joseph Goebbels, what does he do?

3. What takes place in 1927?

4. Does Speer get time to acclimate to the job before a conference with the military and industry convened by Field Marshal Erhard Milch?

5. Germany's prestige rises during what?

(see the answer key)

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