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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Speer goes beyond Hitler's "megalomaniacal notions" in planning urban renewal with a free hand and rescues two international events after the original designers offend Hitler's aesthetics. What are these two events?
(a) The Olympic Stadium and the pavilion at the Paris World's Fair.
(b) The Government Buildings and the pavilion at the St. Louis World's Fair.
(c) The Olympic Stadium and the pavilion at the St. Louis World's Fair.
(d) The Government Buildings and the pavilion at the Paris World's Fair.

2. Does Speer read MEIN KAMPF?
(a) The first half.
(b) One page.
(c) Yes.
(d) No.

3. Hitler approves Speer's _______________ for future building.
(a) "Theory of constraints."
(b) "Theory of reasoned action."
(c) "Theory of mind."
(d) "Theory of Ruin Value."

4. Speer takes technical experts to "Fuehrer conferences" for what reason?
(a) To keep Hitler from feeling uncomfortable.
(b) To keep Hitler from seizing on superficial facts to make unalterable decisions.
(c) To keep him company.
(d) To keep Hitler entertained.

5. Speer's success with Goebbels and Hitler has its ups and downs until when?
(a) He impresses Hitler by his design for the Nuremberg Party Rally.
(b) He leaves the party.
(c) Goebbels falls out of favor with Hitler.
(d) Goebbels leaves Germany.

6. Hitler is unwilling to risk a revolution like ____________.
(a) 1908.
(b) 1881.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1891.

7. Speer's suggestion of diverting construction workers gains grudging approval from Hitler, and Todt puts Speer in charge of what?
(a) Russia.
(b) France.
(c) The vast Ukraine.
(d) Mongolia.

8. 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) 30.
(b) 130.
(c) 1300.
(d) 13,000.

9. Whose assistant does Speer become?
(a) Heinrich Heine's.
(b) Heinrich Tessenow's.
(c) Heinrich Harrer's.
(d) Heinrich Himmler's.

10. Speer enters Hitler's inner circle in Berlin and at his mountain retreat at Obersalzberg and meets _____________.
(a) Goebbels.
(b) Martin Bormann.
(c) Ernst Roehm.
(d) Eva Braun.

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

12. In what does Hitler take little interest?
(a) Tramps through the public forest.
(b) Nature and winter sports.
(c) The city.
(d) Vacations.

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

14. Hitler hints at aims for a great Germanic Reich stretching from ______________.
(a) Iceland to Greece.
(b) China to Spain.
(c) Norway to northern Italy.
(d) Russia to Australia.

15. What door is opened upon Troost's death?
(a) The position of treasurer.
(b) The position of assistant to Hitler.
(c) The position for primary architect.
(d) The position for leader of the Armaments Ministry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hitler appreciate about Speer?

2. The blossoming of Speer's career follows ___________ of Ernst Roehm.

3. Speer's plan of __________________ uses committees to allocate supplies and oversee weapons design.

4. Who becomes too much for Hitler and ends some of his enjoyment?

5. When Speer champions neglected nuclear research, Goering is again put in charge, but Hitler fails to grasp the potential of fission--"Jewish physics"--and instead concentrates on the ____________ rockets, which Speer considers a "misguided project."

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