1. 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.
(a) France.
(b) England.
(c) Norway.
(d) The Netherlands.

2. What takes place in 1927?
(a) Speer begins architecture school.
(b) Speer passes his architect's license examination and marries Margarete Weber.
(c) Speer meets his wife.
(d) Speer becomes a part of Hitler's inner circle.

3. Speer's success with Goebbels and Hitler has its ups and downs until when?
(a) He impresses Hitler by his design for the Nuremberg Party Rally.
(b) Goebbels leaves Germany.
(c) Goebbels falls out of favor with Hitler.
(d) He leaves the party.

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

5. Whose assistant does Speer become?
(a) Heinrich Harrer's.
(b) Heinrich Himmler's.
(c) Heinrich Heine's.
(d) Heinrich Tessenow's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hitler turns to building the autobahn and making Berlin surpass Paris and Vienna in beauty. Hitler specifies an avenue how many yards wide terminated at one end by a great domed meeting hall dwarfing St. Peter's in Rome and at the other by an arch of triumph dwarfing Paris?

2. Ruthless Martin Bormann is master of the mountain. Does anyone sense his threat?

3. Had Speer known about Hitler's intentions, what would he have done?

4. In what does Hitler take little interest?

5. What else does Hitler enjoy?

(see the answer key)

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