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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Seeing his forces encircled at Stalingrad, Hitler forbids what?
(a) The Seventh Army to break out.
(b) The Fourth Army to break out.
(c) The Tenth Army to break out.
(d) The Sixth Army to break out.

2. 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) 13,000.
(b) 30.
(c) 1300.
(d) 130.

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

4. Speer tries not to look like what to the staff?
(a) An unintelligent leader.
(b) An American.
(c) A nervous leader.
(d) An intruder.

5. When winter closes in on the Russian front, the Soviets destroy what, leaving the Germans unable to resupply themselves?
(a) The railroad system.
(b) Roads.
(c) Buses.
(d) Planes.

6. Speer is disappointed by the mere ___________ "art tour" of Paris that suffices Hitler for life.
(a) Four-hour.
(b) Two-hour.
(c) Three-hour.
(d) Five-hour.

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

8. 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.

9. How old is Speer at this point?
(a) 38.
(b) 28.
(c) 30.
(d) 20.

10. When does Troost die?
(a) 1924.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1928.

11. What creates lasting animosity between Goering and Speer?
(a) Goering arrives too late to absorb Todt's domains.
(b) Goering arrives too late to absorb Goebbel's domains.
(c) Goering arrives too late to absorb Goering's domains.
(d) Goering arrives too late to absorb Milch's domains.

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

13. As Dr. Fritz Todt's Ministry of Armaments faces overwhelming tasks, Speer volunteers to do what?
(a) Assist him.
(b) Take over his job.
(c) Find him an assistant.
(d) Tell Hitler he needs more help.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Although Speer is turned off by Joseph Goebbels, what does he do?

2. In the summer of 1939, Hitler menacingly orders the eagle on the dome to clutch in its claws what?

3. 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?

4. About what is Hitler careful?

5. Hitler is mistrustful but can be swayed by whom?

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