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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hitler rejects innovation and never understands what is crucial?
(a) Intelligent machinists.
(b) Recycled metal parts.
(c) Adequate facilities.
(d) Adequate spare parts.

2. When does Speer work for the Reich?
(a) As an old man.
(b) Late at night.
(c) Day and night.
(d) In the morning.

3. Ruthless Martin Bormann is master of the mountain. Does anyone sense his threat?
(a) Yes, everyone.
(b) Yes, Hitler.
(c) No.
(d) Yes, Speer.

4. The Chancellery envisaged to replace the one just built is a palace contrasting with what?
(a) Goebbels' ideas.
(b) The wants of the German people.
(c) Hitler's desires.
(d) Goebbels' propaganda about how simply the Fuehrer lives.

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) Norway.
(c) England.
(d) The Netherlands.

6. The new façade of Hitler's headquarters expresses what?
(a) Happiness and strength.
(b) Power and might.
(c) Grandeur and power.
(d) Remoteness and "self-idolatry."

7. How does Hitler react to Speer's two-sentence speech?
(a) He is angered by it.
(b) He is annoyed by it.
(c) He praises it for conciseness.
(d) He is surprised by it.

8. Why does Hitler surround himself with "flawed" men?
(a) To feel normal.
(b) To better understand the common man.
(c) To feel superior.
(d) To test his knowledge.

9. Who does Speer help deal with Berlin contractors in rebuilding the decrepit Chancellery?
(a) Munich architect Paul Ludwig Troost.
(b) Berlin architect Paul Ludwig Troost.
(c) Dresden architect Paul Ludwig Troost.
(d) Frankfort architect Paul Ludwig Troost.

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

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

12. Does Speer become anti-Semitic?
(a) Yes.
(b) Only at first.
(c) Later in life.
(d) No.

13. What do Bormann, Keitel, and Lammers form to insulate Hitler from others?
(a) A "Protection Committee."
(b) A "Hitler Fan Club."
(c) A "Committee of Three."
(d) An "Insulation Team."

14. Speer's Nuremberg building blends _________________________ but on a monumental scale.
(a) Troost's modernism and Tessenow's classicism.
(b) Tessenow's modernism and Troost's simplicity.
(c) Troost's classicism and Tessenow's simplicity.
(d) Tessenow's classicism and Troost's simplicity.

15. Who does this open door affect?
(a) Bormann.
(b) Speer.
(c) Linz.
(d) Bormann.

Short Answer Questions

1. Within six months, production increases without what?

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

3. How often does Hitler reveal his feelings?

4. What does Hitler enjoy?

5. In what does Hitler take little interest?

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