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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Once Hitler sees a military angle, he pushes production and Himmler offers who as workers?
(a) His family.
(b) His SS men.
(c) Military prisoners.
(d) Concentration camp prisoners.

2. Speer hears that he is considered headstrong and is forbidden to do what?
(a) Resign.
(b) Be in charge of any organization.
(c) Rejoin Hitler's inner circle.
(d) Return to work.

3. Declaring Stalin right in 1937 to have purged his generals, Hitler is sure of victory after doing what?
(a) Killing every general.
(b) Spying on his generals.
(c) Exterminating every traitor.
(d) Bribing his generals.

4. Speer regards his life as what?
(a) Concluded.
(b) Starting over.
(c) Just beginning.
(d) Being cleansed.

5. When the Soviets surround Nikopol, Speer calms Hitler about what?
(a) Stocks of alloy metals for arms.
(b) German armaments.
(c) Germany's military capabilities.
(d) Illness running rampant in the army.

6. Speer helps the United States Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS) evaluate the air war in what atmosphere?
(a) An angry one.
(b) A nervous one.
(c) A comradely one.
(d) An anxious one.

7. How does Hitler react to viewing Speer's photographs of fugitives?
(a) He cries.
(b) He becomes angry.
(c) He is embarrassed.
(d) He shows no emotion.

8. Following the unconditional surrender, Speer wants what?
(a) Aid from the Allies.
(b) A proclamation accepting responsibility for the war and resignation.
(c) To be allowed to go free.
(d) To have Hitler captured.

9. Are Speer's efforts to improve living conditions successful?
(a) Yes, partially.
(b) Yes, completely.
(c) Yes, mostly.
(d) No.

10. He rages against the British and the Jews and demands retaliatory raids without what?
(a) Maps.
(b) Battle plans.
(c) Rations.
(d) Planes or bombs.

11. What does Walter Rohland hope Speer can prevent?
(a) A "scorched earth" policy.
(b) The invasion of Germany.
(c) "Operational warfare."
(d) War.

12. Based on a quotation from MEIN KAMPF about the duty of the people to revolt against state tyranny, Speer plans to kill Hitler, Bormann, Goebbels, and Ley by doing what?
(a) Strangling them.
(b) Introducing poison gas into the bunker's ventilation shaft.
(c) Having the Allies kill them.
(d) Shooting them.

13. Of what is Speer found guilty?
(a) Allowing concentration camp victims to be used for slave labor.
(b) Being a member of Hitler's inner circle.
(c) Fighting the Allied forces.
(d) Requisitioning foreign workers and not caring for them adequately.

14. Why are there no prisoners?
(a) The Polish swiftly win in the Battle of the Bzura,
(b) The Soviets swiftly win the Battle of Kursk.
(c) The British swiflty win in the Battle of Waterloo.
(d) The French swiflty win in the Battle of the Seine.

15. To where does Himmler flee?
(a) Paris.
(b) Prague.
(c) The Black Forest.
(d) Stockholm.

Short Answer Questions

1. Speer is allowed to state his views but forbidden to do what?

2. Hitler believes he will still be able to retire to _______ and studies plans.

3. Operation Valkyrie provides for the fast mobilization of the _________________ men always on furlough in Germany as a "Home Army" to face emergencies.

4. What is another of Hitler's worst mistakes?

5. Why is the Battle of the Bulge lost?

(see the answer keys)

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