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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Speer waives appeal to how many years imprisonment?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 20.
(d) 10.

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

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

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

5. Hitler rejects Jodl's and Speer's attempts at what?
(a) Designing new weaponry.
(b) Surrendering.
(c) Analyzing the enemies' capabilities.
(d) Building more factories.

6. He rages against the British and the Jews and demands retaliatory raids without what?
(a) Battle plans.
(b) Maps.
(c) Rations.
(d) Planes or bombs.

7. What does this bombing do?
(a) It gives the Americans time to free those in concentration camps.
(b) It destroys all German armaments factories.
(c) It destroys Berlin.
(d) It wipes out Germany's ability to replace lost arms and produce fuel.

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

9. Hitler believes he will still be able to retire to _______ and studies plans.
(a) Zempelburg.
(b) Linz.
(c) Heidelberg.
(d) Czarmun.

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

11. 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) Steps down.
(c) Puts him in charge.
(d) Helps him.

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

13. Of what is Speer found guilty?
(a) Allowing concentration camp victims to be used for slave labor.
(b) Being a member of Hitler's inner circle.
(c) Requisitioning foreign workers and not caring for them adequately.
(d) Fighting the Allied forces.

14. Speer and Milch are alarmed that American bomber production is far outstripping Germany's. Hitler and Goering insist that it is what?
(a) Not going to affect Germany.
(b) Just propaganda.
(c) A lie.
(d) True.

15. Speer points to the ongoing danger of what in the age of modern technology?
(a) Prejudice.
(b) Nuclear weaponry.
(c) Dictatorships.
(d) Hatred.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Doenitz puts naval procurement under Speer, what happens?

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

4. 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?

5. As the General Staff desires, the Todt Organization begins building defensive positions on the Dnieper. Why does Hitler order this work stopped?

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