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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Within six months, production increases without what?
(a) Hitler realizing it.
(b) Speer's assistance.
(c) Raising costs.
(d) Hiring more workers.

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

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

4. Through a detailed model of Berlin, Hitler loves to "enter his avenue" to do what?
(a) Evaluate the future effect.
(b) Make changes.
(c) To come up with questions to ask Speer.
(d) Feel happy.

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

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

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

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

9. Speer's success with Goebbels and Hitler has its ups and downs until when?
(a) Goebbels leaves Germany.
(b) Goebbels falls out of favor with Hitler.
(c) He leaves the party.
(d) He impresses Hitler by his design for the Nuremberg Party Rally.

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

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

12. What does Hitler have Speer do to his Berlin office?
(a) Double it in size.
(b) Redecorate it.
(c) Enlarge it and add a balcony.
(d) Rebuild it.

13. 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) Hybrid.
(b) Peenemünde.
(c) Monopropellant.
(d) Solid.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Speer notes that great building in antiquity is normally done by whom?

2. How is Speer when he is called to rebuild the Berlin district headquarters?

3. In what does Hitler take little interest?

4. Hitler approves Speer's _______________ for future building.

5. Hitler talks of making __________ a metropolis and retiring there.

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