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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ley and Himmler both challenge Speer's authority at Peenemünde during what?
(a) The Allied bombing.
(b) His hospitalization.
(c) His time as leader of the Armaments Ministry.
(d) His visit with his family.

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

3. Industrialists give sober reports. How do Hitler and the generals react?
(a) They condemn the reports as pessimistic.
(b) They believe the reports.
(c) They laugh at the reports.
(d) They listen to the reports.

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

5. 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.

6. 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) Goldgasse Castle.
(d) Kransberg Castle.

7. Speer is allowed to state his views but forbidden to do what?
(a) Announce them to the public.
(b) Share them with others.
(c) Share them with Hitler.
(d) Keep them to himself.

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

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

10. 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 government buildings.
(b) Build monuments.
(c) Build armaments factories.
(d) Build bridges.

11. What city surrenders peacefully?
(a) Frankfort.
(b) Dresden.
(c) Hamburg.
(d) Berlin.

12. 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) Steps down.
(b) Puts him in charge.
(c) Clarifies the chain of command.
(d) Helps him.

13. 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) Introducing poison gas into the bunker's ventilation shaft.
(b) Strangling them.
(c) Shooting them.
(d) Having the Allies kill them.

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

15. What does Hitler do as the crisis deepens?
(a) He becomes closer to his people.
(b) He listens to Speer.
(c) He begins to think more rationally.
(d) He further closes his mind.

Short Answer Questions

1. Smelling danger, Bormann calls Speer an enemy of the Party who intends to do what?

2. Speer remembers the human kindness shown by whom?

3. Hitler refuses to take ___________ that Morell recommends?

4. How does Hitler react to viewing Speer's photographs of fugitives?

5. Had the Allies concentrated on attacking _____________ the war would have been lost by 1943.

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