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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapters 9-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Had Speer known about Hitler's intentions, what would he have done?
(a) Joined the party.
(b) Started his own party.
(c) Murdered Hitler.
(d) Left the party and/or Germany.

2. How many people attend Hitler's daily afternoon dinners at which he is harsher than at Obersalzberg, offering monologues that show little growth since his "fertile" youth?
(a) 4-5.
(b) 400-500.
(c) 40-50.
(d) 10-20.

3. Why does Goering have Speer design a new Air Ministry?
(a) He does not trust Speer.
(b) He feels over-worked.
(c) He likes Speer.
(d) He feels slighted.

4. When Hitler first meets Margarete at an official reception, he predicts that her husband will erect buildings unseen in how many years?
(a) 4,000.
(b) 40.
(c) 4.
(d) 400.

5. Does Speer become anti-Semitic?
(a) Only at first.
(b) Later in life.
(c) Yes.
(d) No.

Short Answer Questions

1. Speer masses 130 searchlights to create the first ____________ and masses striking swastika flags to disguise drab façades.

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

3. When does Speer's career blossom?

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. In what does Hitler take little interest?

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