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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. 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 Doric-influenced.
(b) A Corinthean-influenced.
(c) A Baroque-influenced.
(d) An Ionic-influenced.

2. How old is Speer at this point?
(a) 30.
(b) 38.
(c) 20.
(d) 28.

3. Speer grows prosperous but works too much to enjoy what?
(a) His friendship with Hitler.
(b) His life.
(c) His job.
(d) His family.

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?
(a) 13,000.
(b) 1300.
(c) 130.
(d) 30.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What takes place in 1927?

2. When does Troost die?

3. Speer's Nuremberg building blends _________________________ but on a monumental scale.

4. What develops Speer's self-discipline and joy in taking common action?

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.

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