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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After a trip to Paris and several weeks in spartan conditions in Chesnay, Speer and the others are trucked back to where?
(a) Manzanares Castle.
(b) Tratzberg Castle.
(c) Kransberg Castle.
(d) Goldgasse Castle.

2. While Speer recovers for six weeks with his family, what happens?
(a) Hitler commits suicide.
(b) The Allies bomb Berlin.
(c) Would-be successors vie for his position.
(d) The war ends.

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

4. Hearing Hitler's voice, Maj. Remer who commands the troops surrounding Goebbels' Ministry, declares his loyalty and by ______ has crushed the plot.
(a) 8 PM.
(b) 10 PM.
(c) 9 PM.
(d) 7 PM.

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

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

7. As the General Staff desires, the Todt Organization begins building defensive positions on the Dnieper. Why does Hitler order this work stopped?
(a) He considers this work to be too optimistic.
(b) He realizes it is futile.
(c) He considers this work to be defeatist.
(d) He wants to surrender.

8. In what does the leadership--Speer included--live?
(a) "Wealth and affluence."
(b) "Peace and harmony."
(c) A bunker.
(d) "Dissimulation and hypocrisy."

9. Speer points to the ongoing danger of what in the age of modern technology?
(a) Prejudice.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Dictatorships.
(d) Nuclear weaponry.

10. He says his fate matters little when weighed against what?
(a) The need to unify human beings against misuse of technology.
(b) The number of people who died during World War II.
(c) His actions in the name of Germany.
(d) The fate of the civilians during World War II.

11. 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) Bribing his generals.
(d) Exterminating every traitor.

12. 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 French swiflty win in the Battle of the Seine.
(d) The British swiflty win in the Battle of Waterloo.

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

14. Doenitz opposes any more offensive measures but wants what?
(a) To slow refugees reaching the West.
(b) To stop refugees from reaching the West.
(c) To help the Allies.
(d) To expedite refugees reaching the West.

15. Speer and Milch are alarmed that American bomber production is far outstripping Germany's. Hitler and Goering insist that it is what?
(a) Just propaganda.
(b) Not going to affect Germany.
(c) True.
(d) A lie.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Hitler demands ruthless "scorched earth," Speer tries to inspire sympathy for evacuees and reminds him that his order shows a loss of hope. Why does Hitler go along with this?

2. After coldly rejecting Speer's plan for a joint operation with the Air Force, Hitler visits the sickroom, hearing what?

3. What does Walter Rohland hope Speer can prevent?

4. Speer sees Hitler's life "ebbing away" and his own later experience suggests that Hitler has what?

5. When does a massive Allied bombing occur?

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