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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. When the Soviets surround Nikopol, Speer calms Hitler about what?
(a) Illness running rampant in the army.
(b) Stocks of alloy metals for arms.
(c) Germany's military capabilities.
(d) German armaments.

2. Once Hitler sees a military angle, he pushes production and Himmler offers who as workers?
(a) Military prisoners.
(b) Concentration camp prisoners.
(c) His family.
(d) His SS men.

3. Doenitz struggles to think outside what?
(a) His comfort zone.
(b) The ingrained Nazi framework.
(c) The box.
(d) Normal parameters.

4. Doenitz opposes any more offensive measures but wants what?
(a) To expedite refugees reaching the West.
(b) To stop refugees from reaching the West.
(c) To help the Allies.
(d) To slow refugees reaching the West.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does this bombing do?

2. Speer remembers the human kindness shown by whom?

3. What does Hitler do as the crisis deepens?

4. As the war drags on, Hitler comes to admire whose endurance but holds to the stereotype of the West as incompetent?

5. Smelling danger, Bormann calls Speer an enemy of the Party who intends to do what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are Hitler's worst decisions?

3. How does Speer's exuberance at German successes begin to cool? What saves Germany at this point?

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

5. What does the Allied bombing on November 12, 1944 do to Germany? What are the reactions to this bombing?

6. What does Hitler do regarding the Todt Organization's building of defensive positions on the Dnieper? Why does he do this? How does this affect Germany?

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

8. How does Chapter 27 open?

9. What takes place while Speer recovers for six weeks?

10. Describe Hitler in the fall of 1943.

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