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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the Soviets surround Nikopol, Speer calms Hitler about what?
(a) Stocks of alloy metals for arms.
(b) Illness running rampant in the army.
(c) Germany's military capabilities.
(d) German armaments.

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

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

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

5. The Soviet offensive begins when?
(a) On January 12, 1945.
(b) On April 12, 1945.
(c) On June 12, 1945.
(d) On November 12, 1945.

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

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

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

9. When Hitler demands ruthless "scorched earth," Speer tries to inspire sympathy for evacuees and reminds him that his order shows a loss of hope. Why does Hitler go along with this?
(a) He agrees with Speer.
(b) He does not know what else to do.
(c) He believes Speer.
(d) To save face.

10. Are Speer's efforts to improve living conditions successful?
(a) No.
(b) Yes, partially.
(c) Yes, completely.
(d) Yes, mostly.

11. As "Operation Citadel" opens, Speer convinces Hitler to spare who to serve as armaments laborers?
(a) British prisoners.
(b) French prisoners.
(c) Russian prisoners.
(d) Polish prisoners.

12. In what does the leadership--Speer included--live?
(a) "Peace and harmony."
(b) A bunker.
(c) "Wealth and affluence."
(d) "Dissimulation and hypocrisy."

13. What is another of Hitler's worst mistakes?
(a) Retaliating against Poland with the large, expensive, but minimally destructive V-2 rockets at the expense of ground-to-air rockets.
(b) Retaliating against France with the large, expensive, but minimally destructive V-2 rockets at the expense of ground-to-air rockets.
(c) Retaliating against teh Soviets with the large, expensive, but minimally destructive V-2 rockets at the expense of ground-to-air rockets.
(d) Retaliating against England with the large, expensive, but minimally destructive V-2 rockets at the expense of ground-to-air rockets.

14. 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.

15. Declaring Stalin right in 1937 to have purged his generals, Hitler is sure of victory after doing what?
(a) Killing every general.
(b) Exterminating every traitor.
(c) Spying on his generals.
(d) Bribing his generals.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Chapter 28, "The Plunge," opens with Hitler again supporting ____________ against Speer.

3. Hitler believes he will still be able to retire to _______ and studies plans.

4. Who does Hitler number with Braun and Speer as his only friends?

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

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