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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapters 9-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Speer masses 130 searchlights to create the first ____________ and masses striking swastika flags to disguise drab façades.
(a) "House of light."
(b) "Dance of light."
(c) "Cathedral of light."
(d) "Field of light."

2. How old is Speer at this point?
(a) 30.
(b) 38.
(c) 20.
(d) 28.

3. How does Speer benefit from helping this person?
(a) He meets Hitler.
(b) He gains new skills in the architectural field.
(c) He attracts Hitler's attention, is invited to dinner, and becomes the young man destined to design Hitler's legacy.
(d) He gets a raise.

4. How often does Hitler reveal his feelings?
(a) Never.
(b) Seldom.
(c) Constantly.
(d) Often.

5. Hitler hints at aims for a great Germanic Reich stretching from ______________.
(a) Iceland to Greece.
(b) China to Spain.
(c) Norway to northern Italy.
(d) Russia to Australia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Speer notes that great building in antiquity is normally done by whom?

2. 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.

3. 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?

4. What does Hitler enjoy?

5. Speer is disappointed by the mere ___________ "art tour" of Paris that suffices Hitler for life.

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