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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue, Chapters 33-35.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Hitler calms Speer's fears of an armaments collapse by doing what?
(a) Giving Speer a raise.
(b) Declaring that Speer will straighten things out again.
(c) Giving him positive statistics.
(d) Having more factories built.

3. Driving to Nuremberg with Hitler, Speer sees mobs of cheering people slow the car as Hitler brags about what?
(a) Only Luther has so stirred Germans.
(b) How much fun his job is.
(c) How wealthy he is.
(d) How intelligent he is.

4. Speer resorts to lies and deception for what reason?
(a) To protect his family.
(b) To save himself.
(c) To kill Hitler and his henchmen.
(d) To prevent Hitler and his henchmen from destroying the economy before the Allies' ruinous Morgenthau Plan arrives.

5. Hitler turns to building the autobahn and making Berlin surpass Paris and Vienna in beauty. Hitler specifies an avenue how many yards wide terminated at one end by a great domed meeting hall dwarfing St. Peter's in Rome and at the other by an arch of triumph dwarfing Paris?
(a) 130.
(b) 1300.
(c) 13,000.
(d) 30.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hearing Hitler's voice, Maj. Remer who commands the troops surrounding Goebbels' Ministry, declares his loyalty and by ______ has crushed the plot.

2. Following the unconditional surrender, Speer wants what?

3. What does Hitler do as the crisis deepens?

4. Speer warns Hitler that the end is near but is ignored and told to do what to support the decisive offensive Hitler is launching in the West?

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.

(see the answer key)

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