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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) Helps him.
(b) Steps down.
(c) Clarifies the chain of command.
(d) Puts him in charge.

2. What takes place in 1927?
(a) Speer passes his architect's license examination and marries Margarete Weber.
(b) Speer meets his wife.
(c) Speer becomes a part of Hitler's inner circle.
(d) Speer begins architecture school.

3. When did Col. Claus von Stauffenberg try to assassinate Hitler?
(a) On November 20, 1944.
(b) On July 20, 1944.
(c) On April 20, 1944.
(d) On September 20, 1944.

4. As Dr. Fritz Todt's Ministry of Armaments faces overwhelming tasks, Speer volunteers to do what?
(a) Tell Hitler he needs more help.
(b) Assist him.
(c) Find him an assistant.
(d) Take over his job.

5. Chapter 6, "The Greatest Assignment," opens with Hitler choosing to ally with Italy over ____________ and seizing the Rhineland while still lacking an army or air force.
(a) France.
(b) The Netherlands.
(c) England.
(d) Norway.

Short Answer Questions

1. Seeing the futility of the war, Speer is tempted simply to do what?

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

4. When does Speer work for the Reich?

5. What does Hitler enjoy?

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