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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 holds off Hitler's orders by suggesting what?
(a) All leaders go into hiding.
(b) Reconquest is still possible.
(c) The POWs be allowed to escape.
(d) Demolition of only the bridges to the cities.

2. What does Walter Rohland hope Speer can prevent?
(a) The invasion of Germany.
(b) War.
(c) A "scorched earth" policy.
(d) "Operational warfare."

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

4. Does Speer get time to acclimate to the job before a conference with the military and industry convened by Field Marshal Erhard Milch?
(a) Yes, but very little time.
(b) Yes, a great deal of time.
(c) No.
(d) Yes, some time.

5. Hitler talks of making __________ a metropolis and retiring there.
(a) Linz.
(b) Heidelberg.
(c) Czarmun.
(d) Zempelburg.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 28, "The Plunge," opens with Hitler again supporting ____________ against Speer.

2. How does Hitler eliminate an enormous threat?

3. As the war drags on, Hitler comes to admire whose endurance but holds to the stereotype of the West as incompetent?

4. Smelling danger, Bormann calls Speer an enemy of the Party who intends to do what?

5. What is another of Hitler's worst mistakes?

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