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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapters 27-32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Speer is ready to give in to the Gauleiters' pressure to control armaments production and ready to give in for lack of support unless Hitler does what?
(a) Steps down.
(b) Puts him in charge.
(c) Helps him.
(d) Clarifies the chain of command.

2. Based on a quotation from MEIN KAMPF about the duty of the people to revolt against state tyranny, Speer plans to kill Hitler, Bormann, Goebbels, and Ley by doing what?
(a) Having the Allies kill them.
(b) Introducing poison gas into the bunker's ventilation shaft.
(c) Strangling them.
(d) Shooting them.

3. Operation Valkyrie provides for the fast mobilization of the _________________ men always on furlough in Germany as a "Home Army" to face emergencies.
(a) 300.
(b) 300,000.
(c) 3,000.
(d) 30,000.

4. The blossoming of Speer's career follows ___________ of Ernst Roehm.
(a) The promotion.
(b) The death.
(c) The leadership.
(d) The "blood purge."

5. Why does Speer's exuberance at German successes cool?
(a) Hitler stops listening to him.
(b) His tactics no longer work.
(c) As Allied bombings begin affecting production.
(d) He no longer wants to help Germany win the war.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Col. Claus von Stauffenberg try to assassinate Hitler?

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?

3. While Speer recovers for six weeks with his family, what happens?

4. How often does Hitler reveal his feelings?

5. News of the Allied invasion of __________ is taken as a feint for a thrust at undefended Italy or southern France.

(see the answer key)

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