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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hitler calms Speer's fears of an armaments collapse by doing what?
(a) Having more factories built.
(b) Giving him positive statistics.
(c) Giving Speer a raise.
(d) Declaring that Speer will straighten things out again.

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

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

4. After the invasions of Africa and Italy, Hitler is certain what can happen?
(a) The Germans will face certain defeat.
(b) The Allies will surrender.
(c) Ground can be regained.
(d) The Allies will go home.

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

6. 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?
(a) Worried.
(b) Unsure.
(c) Relieved.
(d) Offended.

7. Hitler refuses to believe that who cannot overrun the Americans?
(a) The elite SS.
(b) The Japanese.
(c) The average German soldier.
(d) The Soviets.

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

9. Speer sees Hitler's life "ebbing away" and his own later experience suggests that Hitler has what?
(a) Depression.
(b) Schizophrenia.
(c) A prisoner's psychology.
(d) Anxiety disorder.

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

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

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

13. The ______ defendants are separated from other prisoners, given intelligence tests, and handed copies of the indictments.
(a) 21.
(b) 11.
(c) 31.
(d) 41.

14. Speer is ready to give in to the Gauleiters' pressure to control armaments production and ready to give in for lack of support unless Hitler does what?
(a) Clarifies the chain of command.
(b) Helps him.
(c) Puts him in charge.
(d) Steps down.

15. Hitler is more shaken by damage reports than __________ and orders impossible repairs of theaters to keep up public morale.
(a) Battles.
(b) Allied invasions.
(c) Casualties.
(d) Propaganda.

Short Answer Questions

1. Himmler refuses to be excluded from what?

2. Justice Robert H. Jackson delivers a devastating opening address, and how many months of testimony and documents detail the Nazi horror?

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

4. He says his fate matters little when weighed against what?

5. In what does the leadership--Speer included--live?

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