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

2. Hitler refuses Speer's call to employ who in factories?
(a) Catholics.
(b) Children.
(c) Jews.
(d) Women.

3. How does Speer benefit from helping this person?
(a) He meets Hitler.
(b) He attracts Hitler's attention, is invited to dinner, and becomes the young man destined to design Hitler's legacy.
(c) He gains new skills in the architectural field.
(d) He gets a raise.

4. What does Hitler have Speer do to his Berlin office?
(a) Redecorate it.
(b) Double it in size.
(c) Rebuild it.
(d) Enlarge it and add a balcony.

5. Why does armament production never reach World War I levels?
(a) Because Hitler will not allow it.
(b) Because Speer does not want it to.
(c) Because Germany is too poor.
(d) Because of bureaucratization Speer cannot control.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hitler talks of making __________ a metropolis and retiring there.

2. Top figures in industry and government endorse Speer's scheme, and despite Goering's threat to resign as head of the Four-Year Plan and Speer's promise to work within his framework, Hitler gives Speer what?

3. Why does Goering have Speer design a new Air Ministry?

4. Hitler rejects innovation and never understands what is crucial?

5. What does Hitler appreciate about Speer?

Short Essay Questions

1. What events take place that show Speer the true side of Hitler and his Nazi Party? How does Speer react to these events?

2. What does Hitler do with a model of Berlin? What does Speer later realize about this model?

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

4. Give examples of Speer's work in 1934 which shows his career blossoming.

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

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

7. With whom does Hitler surround himself? How does he act around these people?

8. Describe the beginning of Speer's time as head of the Armaments Ministry.

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

10. Describe Adolf Hitler Platz.

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