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

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

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

4. 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.

5. Speer is reluctant to accept the "Central Works" under what?
(a) SS auspices.
(b) Himmler's authority.
(c) Labor Services auspices.
(d) Hitler's authority.

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 considers this work to be defeatist.
(b) He realizes it is futile.
(c) He considers this work to be too optimistic.
(d) He wants to surrender.

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

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

9. Speer resorts to lies and deception for what reason?
(a) To prevent Hitler and his henchmen from destroying the economy before the Allies' ruinous Morgenthau Plan arrives.
(b) To protect his family.
(c) To kill Hitler and his henchmen.
(d) To save himself.

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

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

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

13. Justice Robert H. Jackson delivers a devastating opening address, and how many months of testimony and documents detail the Nazi horror?
(a) Three.
(b) Nine.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Hitler refuses to take ___________ that Morell recommends?

3. When the Soviets surround Nikopol, Speer calms Hitler about what?

4. Are Speer's efforts to improve living conditions successful?

5. Hitler raises the specter of using the nerve agent _________ against the Soviets.

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