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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. What creates lasting animosity between Goering and Speer?
(a) Goering arrives too late to absorb Goebbel's domains.
(b) Goering arrives too late to absorb Todt's domains.
(c) Goering arrives too late to absorb Milch's domains.
(d) Goering arrives too late to absorb Goering's domains.

2. When was Albert Speer born?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1895.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1905.

3. What develops Speer's self-discipline and joy in taking common action?
(a) Joining a rowing association.
(b) Joining the choir.
(c) Joining the military.
(d) Joining the football team.

4. Hitler tells Speer to stop the conference for what reason?
(a) If there are difficulties.
(b) If the argument becomes heated.
(c) If he becomes nervous.
(d) If it goes on for too long.

5. Why does armament production never reach World War I levels?
(a) Because of bureaucratization Speer cannot control.
(b) Because Speer does not want it to.
(c) Because Germany is too poor.
(d) Because Hitler will not allow it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Goering have Speer design a new Air Ministry?

2. In the summer of 1939, Hitler menacingly orders the eagle on the dome to clutch in its claws what?

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. 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?

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