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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hitler refuses to take ___________ that Morell recommends?
(a) The long walks.
(b) Vacations.
(c) Pills.
(d) Naps.

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

3. As the war drags on, Hitler comes to admire whose endurance but holds to the stereotype of the West as incompetent?
(a) Stalin's.
(b) Churchill's.
(c) FDR's.
(d) Daladier's.

4. Himmler refuses to be excluded from what?
(a) Hitler's inner circle.
(b) The government.
(c) Decisions being made.
(d) Surrender.

5. When the Cabinet agrees to put all war production under Speer's control, what does Bormann do?
(a) He undermines Speer's plans.
(b) He asks to assist Speer.
(c) He warns Hitler against being drawn into rivalries.
(d) He warns Hitler that Speer is a spy.

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

7. Speer breaks taboo by doing what?
(a) Being honest with Hitler regarding his beliefs.
(b) Yelling at Hitler.
(c) Leaving the country.
(d) Sending out a circular letter about avoiding destruction on principle.

8. Hitler raises the specter of using the nerve agent _________ against the Soviets.
(a) Sarin.
(b) Biperiden.
(c) Acetylcholine.
(d) Tabun.

9. Speer warns Hitler that the end is near but is ignored and told to do what to support the decisive offensive Hitler is launching in the West?
(a) Build monuments.
(b) Build government buildings.
(c) Build armaments factories.
(d) Build bridges.

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

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

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

13. Hitler is euphoric at New Year's _______.
(a) 1947.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1946.

14. Hitler rejects Jodl's and Speer's attempts at what?
(a) Surrendering.
(b) Analyzing the enemies' capabilities.
(c) Designing new weaponry.
(d) Building more factories.

15. Doenitz struggles to think outside what?
(a) The box.
(b) The ingrained Nazi framework.
(c) Normal parameters.
(d) His comfort zone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are civilians begging the army not to do?

2. Speer waives appeal to how many years imprisonment?

3. In his last radio address Hitler rejects what and then withdraws to the old Party clique, grasping at straws and insisting that nothing but desert be left to the victors?

4. What is one of Hitler's worst decisions?

5. When Speer and Guderian suggest to Hitler assigning an army Commander-in-Chief parallel with the autonomous chiefs of the Navy and Air Force, how does Hitler feel?

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