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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. 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 England with the large, expensive, but minimally destructive V-2 rockets at the expense of ground-to-air rockets.
(d) Retaliating against teh Soviets with the large, expensive, but minimally destructive V-2 rockets at the expense of ground-to-air rockets.

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

3. Hearing Hitler's voice, Maj. Remer who commands the troops surrounding Goebbels' Ministry, declares his loyalty and by ______ has crushed the plot.
(a) 7 PM.
(b) 8 PM.
(c) 10 PM.
(d) 9 PM.

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

5. Speer keeps up his busy schedule and, hearing of Bormann and Sauckel's machinations, twice writes Hitler, for what reason?
(a) To see how he is feeling.
(b) To send his reports.
(c) To protest disloyalty and request unconditional authority.
(d) To ask him to visit him in the hospital.

Short Answer Questions

1. Speer waives appeal to how many years imprisonment?

2. Hitler is euphoric at New Year's _______.

3. What does this bombing do?

4. Hitler refuses to believe that who cannot overrun the Americans?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What takes place while Speers is in the hospital for two months?

2. What is Operation Valkyrie? What is the result of this operation?

3. What happens to Speer as the war comes to an end?

4. How does Chapter 28 open?

5. How does the book end?

6. What does Hitler say during his last radio address?

7. What does Speer say about the danger of dictatorships?

8. What is Himmler's reaction at the end of the war?

9. Describe Hitler in the fall of 1943.

10. How does Speer quickly save his ability to influence Hitler?

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