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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What amazes Speer about Hitler?
(a) How intelligent he is.
(b) How talented he is.
(c) How odd he is.
(d) How he squanders time.

3. Goering is jealous of the military impinging on what?
(a) His Three-Year Plan.
(b) His Four-Year Plan.
(c) His Five-Year Plan.
(d) His Two-Year Plan.

4. Speer's plan of __________________ uses committees to allocate supplies and oversee weapons design.
(a) "Industrial strength."
(b) "Industrial self-responsibility."
(c) "Industrial clarity."
(d) "Industrial self-respect."

5. Speer notes that great building in antiquity is normally done by whom?
(a) Despots.
(b) Famous architects.
(c) Artists.
(d) The wealthy.

6. About what is Hitler careful?
(a) Military strategies.
(b) Controlling his temper.
(c) His friends.
(d) His public image.

7. Hitler grows increasingly ____________ after the autumn of 1942 as his entourage convinces him that he has superhuman powers.
(a) Worried.
(b) Unsure.
(c) Stubborn.
(d) Depressed.

8. Hitler talks of making __________ a metropolis and retiring there.
(a) Czarmun.
(b) Heidelberg.
(c) Linz.
(d) Zempelburg.

9. Who becomes too much for Hitler and ends some of his enjoyment?
(a) Speer.
(b) Martin Bormann.
(c) Eva Braun.
(d) His adoring crowds.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Speer inherit?

2. What develops Speer's self-discipline and joy in taking common action?

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

4. With Goebbels and Goering counseling peace, Hitler rapidly conquers what two countries?

5. Why does Goering have Speer design a new Air Ministry?

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