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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 14-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what is Hitler careful?
(a) Military strategies.
(b) His public image.
(c) Controlling his temper.
(d) His friends.

2. 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 Government Buildings 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 Olympic Stadium and the pavilion at the Paris World's Fair.

3. When Speer champions neglected nuclear research, Goering is again put in charge, but Hitler fails to grasp the potential of fission--"Jewish physics"--and instead concentrates on the ____________ rockets, which Speer considers a "misguided project."
(a) Monopropellant.
(b) Hybrid.
(c) Solid.
(d) Peenemünde.

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

5. Although Speer is turned off by Joseph Goebbels, what does he do?
(a) Quits the Party.
(b) Meets Hitler.
(c) Joins the Party.
(d) Begins his own party.

Short Answer Questions

1. Speer warns that victory must come _______________.

2. How is Speer when he is called to rebuild the Berlin district headquarters?

3. Hitler views grand buildings as what?

4. Speer does away with piecemeal production, embraces "industrial mass production," and eliminates department chiefs' setting of independent priorities. Some complain of his __________ methods, but Hitler appreciates impulsive genius.

5. What door is opened upon Troost's death?

(see the answer key)

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