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

2. Had the Allies concentrated on attacking _____________ the war would have been lost by 1943.
(a) Berlin.
(b) Hitler's bunker.
(c) The coastline.
(d) Key armaments factories.

3. Speer regards his life as what?
(a) Just beginning.
(b) Concluded.
(c) Being cleansed.
(d) Starting over.

4. What city surrenders peacefully?
(a) Hamburg.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Frankfort.
(d) Dresden.

5. Fromm orders summary courts martial and execution of the conspirators, including who?
(a) Von Stauffenberg.
(b) Remer.
(c) Speer.
(d) Rohland.

Short Answer Questions

1. While Speer recovers for six weeks with his family, what happens?

2. Himmler refuses to be excluded from what?

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

4. When the Cabinet agrees to put all war production under Speer's control, what does Bormann do?

5. Seeing the futility of the war, Speer is tempted simply to do what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Chapter 29 find Speer?

2. What meeting does Speer mediate? Why? What is the result of this meeting?

3. What does Hitler do when he ignores Speer's calls to cripple key Allied resources? How does he then calm Speer's fears of an armaments collapse?

4. Describe Hitler in the fall of 1943.

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

6. How does Chapter 27 open?

7. What does Speer convince Hitler to do regarding Russian prisoners? Why is this, in the end, not necessary?

8. What happens when Speers warns Hitler that the end is near?

9. How does Speer's life become threatened? How is his life spared?

10. How does the book end?

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