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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 develops Speer's self-discipline and joy in taking common action?
(a) Joining a rowing association.
(b) Joining the choir.
(c) Joining the military.
(d) Joining the football team.

2. What door is opened upon Troost's death?
(a) The position of assistant to Hitler.
(b) The position for primary architect.
(c) The position for leader of the Armaments Ministry.
(d) The position of treasurer.

3. Speer redesigns Zeppelin Field in Nuremberg as ________________ stone structure destined to remain for ages as a witness to the greatness of the builders' epoch.
(a) A Baroque-influenced.
(b) A Doric-influenced.
(c) A Corinthean-influenced.
(d) An Ionic-influenced.

4. Speer enters Hitler's inner circle in Berlin and at his mountain retreat at Obersalzberg and meets _____________.
(a) Martin Bormann.
(b) Goebbels.
(c) Eva Braun.
(d) Ernst Roehm.

5. What happens when Hitler encourages servility among his entourage?
(a) He becomes annoyed by it.
(b) He becomes unsure about it.
(c) He becomes corrupted by it.
(d) He becomes worried by it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Speer grows prosperous but works too much to enjoy what?

2. Why does Speer build grand halls and salons?

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

4. 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?

5. 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.

(see the answer key)

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