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

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

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

5. Germany's prestige rises during what?
(a) The Beijing Olympic Games.
(b) The Berlin Olympic Games.
(c) The Munich Olympic Games.
(d) The Salt Lake City Olympic Games.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Does Speer become anti-Semitic?

3. Driving to Nuremberg with Hitler, Speer sees mobs of cheering people slow the car as Hitler brags about what?

4. Who becomes too much for Hitler and ends some of his enjoyment?

5. Although Speer is turned off by Joseph Goebbels, what does he do?

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