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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Speer's exuberance at German successes cool?
(a) He no longer wants to help Germany win the war.
(b) His tactics no longer work.
(c) As Allied bombings begin affecting production.
(d) Hitler stops listening to him.

3. Hitler believes he will still be able to retire to _______ and studies plans.
(a) Heidelberg.
(b) Linz.
(c) Zempelburg.
(d) Czarmun.

4. What is another of Hitler's worst mistakes?
(a) Retaliating against England with the large, expensive, but minimally destructive V-2 rockets at the expense of ground-to-air rockets.
(b) Retaliating against teh Soviets with the large, expensive, but minimally destructive V-2 rockets at the expense of ground-to-air rockets.
(c) Retaliating against France with the large, expensive, but minimally destructive V-2 rockets at the expense of ground-to-air rockets.
(d) Retaliating against Poland with the large, expensive, but minimally destructive V-2 rockets at the expense of ground-to-air rockets.

5. After coldly rejecting Speer's plan for a joint operation with the Air Force, Hitler visits the sickroom, hearing what?
(a) Speer is lonely.
(b) Speer has asked for him.
(c) Speer is dying.
(d) Speer is depressed.

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

7. Why is the Battle of the Bulge lost?
(a) The German army becomes ill.
(b) Bad weather.
(c) Bad weather clears.
(d) The Allies are more intelligent.

8. Who does Hitler number with Braun and Speer as his only friends?
(a) His Alsatian dog Blondi.
(b) Milch.
(c) Bormann.
(d) Jodl.

9. Seeing the futility of the war, Speer is tempted simply to do what?
(a) Join the Allied forces.
(b) Disappear.
(c) Die.
(d) Sleep.

10. Chapter 28, "The Plunge," opens with Hitler again supporting ____________ against Speer.
(a) Himmler.
(b) The Gauleiters.
(c) Rohland.
(d) Von Stauffenberg.

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

12. Fromm orders summary courts martial and execution of the conspirators, including who?
(a) Von Stauffenberg.
(b) Remer.
(c) Rohland.
(d) Speer.

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

14. What are civilians begging the army not to do?
(a) Desert them.
(b) Give in to the Allies.
(c) Defend their towns.
(d) Retreat.

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) A lie.
(c) Not going to affect Germany.
(d) True.

Short Answer Questions

1. By September 1944, as the Allies are poised to invade Germany, Hitler orders what?

2. As the war drags on, Hitler comes to admire whose endurance but holds to the stereotype of the West as incompetent?

3. Speer wonders if he looks as rundown as who?

4. Speer holds off Hitler's orders by suggesting what?

5. Speer waives appeal to how many years imprisonment?

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