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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. By the autumn of 1943, Speer feels insecure in his own Ministry and begins consolidating his position by doing what?
(a) Freeing the captives.
(b) Assigning deputy heads.
(c) Stopping armaments production in some factories.
(d) Letting go hundreds of workers.

3. Speer mediates a meeting of Goering, Guderian, Zeitzler, and Fromm to discuss what?
(a) Problems caused by Hitler's mental illness.
(b) Problems caused by the Allied forces.
(c) Problems caused by Hitler assuming command but not exercising it.
(d) Problems caused by other men in the inner circle.

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

5. Operation Valkyrie provides for the fast mobilization of the _________________ men always on furlough in Germany as a "Home Army" to face emergencies.
(a) 300.
(b) 3,000.
(c) 300,000.
(d) 30,000.

6. How long does Speer spend in a hospital?
(a) Two months.
(b) One month.
(c) Six weeks.
(d) Two weeks.

7. Doenitz signs Speer's edict against demolition and encourages him to address the people for what reason?
(a) To calm their fears.
(b) To let them know they have not been abandoned.
(c) Speer is now in charge.
(d) To counteract lethargy.

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

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

10. Speer holds off Hitler's orders by suggesting what?
(a) Reconquest is still possible.
(b) Demolition of only the bridges to the cities.
(c) All leaders go into hiding.
(d) The POWs be allowed to escape.

11. By September 1944, as the Allies are poised to invade Germany, Hitler orders what?
(a) Demolition of all major cities.
(b) Suicides by all his leaders.
(c) Demolition of all industrial installations.
(d) The murder of all POWs.

12. Speer wonders if he looks as rundown as who?
(a) His men.
(b) The Allies.
(c) The concentration camp survivors.
(d) The other prisoners.

13. 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) Unsure.
(b) Relieved.
(c) Offended.
(d) Worried.

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Speer is allowed to state his views but forbidden to do what?

2. Speer keeps up his busy schedule and, hearing of Bormann and Sauckel's machinations, twice writes Hitler, for what reason?

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

4. When does a massive Allied bombing occur?

5. Doenitz opposes any more offensive measures but wants what?

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