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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Speer warns that victory must come _______________.
(a) Slowly.
(b) Steadily.
(c) Quickly.
(d) Now.

2. How often does Hitler reveal his feelings?
(a) Often.
(b) Never.
(c) Constantly.
(d) Seldom.

3. When can Speer and his associates work on designs?
(a) Only when Hitler is sleeping.
(b) Only when Hitler is ill.
(c) Only when Hitler is in conferences.
(d) Only when Hitler is in Berlin.

4. 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) Norway.
(b) France.
(c) England.
(d) The Netherlands.

5. What happens when Hitler encourages servility among his entourage?
(a) He becomes annoyed by it.
(b) He becomes unsure about it.
(c) He becomes worried by it.
(d) He becomes corrupted by it.

6. Hitler calls for making Berlin so beautiful that no one will care if what happens?
(a) London is destroyed.
(b) Frankfort is destroyed.
(c) Munich is destroyed.
(d) Paris is destroyed.

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

8. What else does Hitler enjoy?
(a) Drives to Königssee.
(b) Drives to Berlin.
(c) Drives to Frankfort.
(d) Drives to Dresden.

9. Hitler tells Speer to stop the conference for what reason?
(a) If the argument becomes heated.
(b) If there are difficulties.
(c) If it goes on for too long.
(d) If he becomes nervous.

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

11. Germany's prestige rises during what?
(a) The Berlin Olympic Games.
(b) The Munich Olympic Games.
(c) The Salt Lake City Olympic Games.
(d) The Beijing Olympic Games.

12. When it becomes clear that it has been pre-arranged for Milch to control the whole war economy, Speer appeals to Hitler who demands what?
(a) They ignore Speer.
(b) They leave Milch alone.
(c) They put Speer in control of the whole war economy.
(d) They treat Speer as a gentleman.

13. 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.

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

15. The new Reichstag would be the world's greatest assembly hall but has no ___________.
(a) Legislative function.
(b) Living quarters.
(c) Windows.
(d) Eating quarters.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Speer build grand halls and salons?

2. Top figures in industry and government endorse Speer's scheme, and despite Goering's threat to resign as head of the Four-Year Plan and Speer's promise to work within his framework, Hitler gives Speer what?

3. What amazes Speer about Hitler?

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

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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