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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people attend Hitler's daily afternoon dinners at which he is harsher than at Obersalzberg, offering monologues that show little growth since his "fertile" youth?
(a) 10-20.
(b) 4-5.
(c) 400-500.
(d) 40-50.

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

3. Speer grows prosperous but works too much to enjoy what?
(a) His family.
(b) His job.
(c) His friendship with Hitler.
(d) His life.

4. Hitler refuses Speer's call to employ who in factories?
(a) Catholics.
(b) Jews.
(c) Women.
(d) Children.

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

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

7. Who does Hitler say will be the loser of the war?
(a) Those who mock him.
(b) The side that makes the greatest blunders.
(c) The Germans.
(d) The Allies.

8. The East-West axis opens for traffic on the eve of what?
(a) Christmas 1939.
(b) Hitler's 50th birthday.
(c) Easter 1940.
(d) Hitler's 40th birthday.

9. When was Albert Speer born?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1895.
(d) 1900.

10. 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) 1300.
(b) 13,000.
(c) 30.
(d) 130.

11. Speer does away with piecemeal production, embraces "industrial mass production," and eliminates department chiefs' setting of independent priorities. Some complain of his __________ methods, but Hitler appreciates impulsive genius.
(a) "European."
(b) "British."
(c) "Jewish."
(d) "American."

12. 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."
(a) Peenemünde.
(b) Hybrid.
(c) Solid.
(d) Monopropellant.

13. 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 Berlin.
(d) Only when Hitler is in conferences.

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Speer build grand halls and salons?

2. Germany's prestige rises during what?

3. How does Hitler react to Speer's two-sentence speech?

4. How does Speer benefit from helping this person?

5. Seeing his forces encircled at Stalingrad, Hitler forbids what?

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