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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what does Hitler take little interest?
(a) The city.
(b) Vacations.
(c) Tramps through the public forest.
(d) Nature and winter sports.

2. Hitler is mistrustful but can be swayed by whom?
(a) His mother.
(b) Speer.
(c) Those skilled in manipulation.
(d) Only those in his inner circle.

3. What else does Hitler enjoy?
(a) Drives to Berlin.
(b) Drives to Königssee.
(c) Drives to Frankfort.
(d) Drives to Dresden.

4. Speer enters Hitler's inner circle in Berlin and at his mountain retreat at Obersalzberg and meets _____________.
(a) Eva Braun.
(b) Martin Bormann.
(c) Ernst Roehm.
(d) Goebbels.

5. Speer notes that great building in antiquity is normally done by whom?
(a) The wealthy.
(b) Artists.
(c) Despots.
(d) Famous architects.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Speer's career blossom?

2. The Chancellery envisaged to replace the one just built is a palace contrasting with what?

3. How does Hitler react to Speer's two-sentence speech?

4. Speer does away with piecemeal production, embraces "industrial mass production," and eliminates department chiefs' setting of independent priorities. Some complain of his __________ methods, but Hitler appreciates impulsive genius.

5. Himmler offers who to make bricks and quarry granite?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Hitler appreciate about Speer? How does this lead to work for Speer?

2. Why is it surprising that Speer joined the Party?

3. How does Hitler rapidly conquer Poland and France?

4. Who does Speer take with him to "Fuehrer conferences?" Why?

5. What is significant about 1934 for Speer?

6. How does Speer support and even surpass Hitler's desires?

7. What poor military decisions does Hitler make after the Allied invasion of North Africa?

8. What is the "Committee of Three?"

9. What is taking place in Speer's life when he is called to rebuild the Berlin district headquarters? Why might this be?

10. What does Speer do with 130 searchlights?

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