1. How does Hitler eliminate an enormous threat?
(a) By attacking the Russians.
(b) By completing a nonaggresson pact with Churchill.
(c) By attacking the British.
(d) By completing a nonaggression pact with Stalin.

2. 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?
(a) Build bridges.
(b) Build government buildings.
(c) Build armaments factories.
(d) Build monuments.

3. Who does Speer help deal with Berlin contractors in rebuilding the decrepit Chancellery?
(a) Frankfort architect Paul Ludwig Troost.
(b) Berlin architect Paul Ludwig Troost.
(c) Dresden architect Paul Ludwig Troost.
(d) Munich architect Paul Ludwig Troost.

4. Are Speer's efforts to improve living conditions successful?
(a) Yes, mostly.
(b) Yes, completely.
(c) No.
(d) Yes, partially.

5. By the autumn of 1943, Speer feels insecure in his own Ministry and begins consolidating his position by doing what?
(a) Assigning deputy heads.
(b) Letting go hundreds of workers.
(c) Stopping armaments production in some factories.
(d) Freeing the captives.

Short Answer Questions

1. Speer is ready to give in to the Gauleiters' pressure to control armaments production and ready to give in for lack of support unless Hitler does what?

2. Speer takes technical experts to "Fuehrer conferences" for what reason?

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

4. The Chancellery envisaged to replace the one just built is a palace contrasting with what?

5. Hitler approves Speer's _______________ for future building.

(see the answer key)

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