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

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

3. In what does Hitler take little interest?
(a) Tramps through the public forest.
(b) Vacations.
(c) The city.
(d) Nature and winter sports.

4. Speer notes that great building in antiquity is normally done by whom?
(a) Famous architects.
(b) The wealthy.
(c) Artists.
(d) Despots.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How often does Hitler reveal his feelings?

2. What does Hitler appreciate about Speer?

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

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

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

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