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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapters 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Driving to Nuremberg with Hitler, Speer sees mobs of cheering people slow the car as Hitler brags about what?
(a) Only Luther has so stirred Germans.
(b) How wealthy he is.
(c) How intelligent he is.
(d) How much fun his job is.

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

4. Although Speer is turned off by Joseph Goebbels, what does he do?
(a) Meets Hitler.
(b) Begins his own party.
(c) Quits the Party.
(d) Joins the Party.

5. Speer's Nuremberg building blends _________________________ but on a monumental scale.
(a) Tessenow's classicism and Troost's simplicity.
(b) Tessenow's modernism and Troost's simplicity.
(c) Troost's classicism and Tessenow's simplicity.
(d) Troost's modernism and Tessenow's classicism.

Short Answer Questions

1. How often does Hitler reveal his feelings?

2. When can Speer and his associates work on designs?

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. Whose assistant does Speer become?

5. What does Hitler have Speer do to his Berlin office?

(see the answer key)

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