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

2. Hitler approves Speer's _______________ for future building.
(a) "Theory of reasoned action."
(b) "Theory of mind."
(c) "Theory of constraints."
(d) "Theory of Ruin Value."

3. 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) 1300.
(b) 130.
(c) 13,000.
(d) 30.

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

5. In the summer of 1939, Hitler menacingly orders the eagle on the dome to clutch in its claws what?
(a) Not a globe but a swastika.
(b) Not a swastika but a snake.
(c) Not a swastika but a globe.
(d) Not a globe but an olive leaf.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1939, Speer guarantees completion of the five-mile core by __________, with the massive cost being spread over many budgets.

2. When does Speer work for the Reich?

3. With Goebbels and Goering counseling peace, Hitler rapidly conquers what two countries?

4. 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?

5. Does Speer become anti-Semitic?

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