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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Speer masses 130 searchlights to create the first ____________ and masses striking swastika flags to disguise drab façades.
(a) "Cathedral of light."
(b) "Field of light."
(c) "Dance of light."
(d) "House of light."

2. Hitler tells Speer to stop the conference for what reason?
(a) If he becomes nervous.
(b) If the argument becomes heated.
(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) Dresden architect Paul Ludwig Troost.
(b) Munich architect Paul Ludwig Troost.
(c) Frankfort architect Paul Ludwig Troost.
(d) Berlin architect Paul Ludwig Troost.

4. 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, but very little time.
(b) Yes, some time.
(c) No.
(d) Yes, a great deal of time.

5. What happens when Hitler encourages servility among his entourage?
(a) He becomes unsure about it.
(b) He becomes annoyed by it.
(c) He becomes worried by it.
(d) He becomes corrupted by it.

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

7. When does Speer work for the Reich?
(a) Day and night.
(b) In the morning.
(c) As an old man.
(d) Late at night.

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

9. When does Speer's career blossom?
(a) 1934.
(b) 1928.
(c) 1924.
(d) 1938.

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

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

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

13. Speer redesigns Zeppelin Field in Nuremberg as ________________ stone structure destined to remain for ages as a witness to the greatness of the builders' epoch.
(a) A Corinthean-influenced.
(b) A Doric-influenced.
(c) An Ionic-influenced.
(d) A Baroque-influenced.

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

15. 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) 30.
(c) 13,000.
(d) 130.

Short Answer Questions

1. When it becomes clear that it has been pre-arranged for Milch to control the whole war economy, Speer appeals to Hitler who demands what?

2. 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?

3. Speer's Nuremberg building blends _________________________ but on a monumental scale.

4. Speer warns that victory must come _______________.

5. News of the Allied invasion of __________ is taken as a feint for a thrust at undefended Italy or southern France.

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