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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapters 27-32.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Based on a quotation from MEIN KAMPF about the duty of the people to revolt against state tyranny, Speer plans to kill Hitler, Bormann, Goebbels, and Ley by doing what?
(a) Having the Allies kill them.
(b) Introducing poison gas into the bunker's ventilation shaft.
(c) Shooting them.
(d) Strangling them.

3. What are civilians begging the army not to do?
(a) Give in to the Allies.
(b) Desert them.
(c) Defend their towns.
(d) Retreat.

4. When Speer champions neglected nuclear research, Goering is again put in charge, but Hitler fails to grasp the potential of fission--"Jewish physics"--and instead concentrates on the ____________ rockets, which Speer considers a "misguided project."
(a) Monopropellant.
(b) Peenemünde.
(c) Hybrid.
(d) Solid.

5. How does Hitler react to viewing Speer's photographs of fugitives?
(a) He becomes angry.
(b) He cries.
(c) He is embarrassed.
(d) He shows no emotion.

Short Answer Questions

1. The blossoming of Speer's career follows ___________ of Ernst Roehm.

2. Speer hears that he is considered headstrong and is forbidden to do what?

3. The Soviet offensive begins when?

4. Hitler hints at aims for a great Germanic Reich stretching from ______________.

5. Speer warns Hitler that the end is near but is ignored and told to do what to support the decisive offensive Hitler is launching in the West?

(see the answer key)

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