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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Speer is even allowed to recruit where?
(a) Outside the country.
(b) Outside the European continent.
(c) Outside the party.
(d) In his hometown.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Does Speer get time to acclimate to the job before a conference with the military and industry convened by Field Marshal Erhard Milch?
(a) Yes, some time.
(b) Yes, a great deal of time.
(c) Yes, but very little time.
(d) No.

10. Hitler views grand buildings as what?
(a) A way to restore German self-respect.
(b) A way to bring attention to Germany.
(c) A way to cheer up the people.
(d) A way to show off German skills.

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

12. With Goebbels and Goering counseling peace, Hitler rapidly conquers what two countries?
(a) England and Italy.
(b) Poland and France.
(c) Sweden and Norway.
(d) Austria and Switzerland.

13. How does Hitler eliminate an enormous threat?
(a) By completing a nonaggresson pact with Churchill.
(b) By completing a nonaggression pact with Stalin.
(c) By attacking the Russians.
(d) By attacking the British.

14. What does Speer inherit?
(a) Goebbels' ministries and the Goebbels Organization.
(b) Milch's ministries and the Milch Organization.
(c) Todt's ministries and the Todt Organization.
(d) Goering's ministries and the Goering Organization.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Speer is disappointed by the mere ___________ "art tour" of Paris that suffices Hitler for life.

2. Speer tries not to look like what to the staff?

3. When does Speer's career blossom?

4. 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?

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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