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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. After coldly rejecting Speer's plan for a joint operation with the Air Force, Hitler visits the sickroom, hearing what?
(a) Speer is depressed.
(b) Speer is dying.
(c) Speer has asked for him.
(d) Speer is lonely.

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

3. Declaring Stalin right in 1937 to have purged his generals, Hitler is sure of victory after doing what?
(a) Exterminating every traitor.
(b) Killing every general.
(c) Bribing his generals.
(d) Spying on his generals.

4. Speer waives appeal to how many years imprisonment?
(a) 2.
(b) 10.
(c) 5.
(d) 20.

5. Speer mediates a meeting of Goering, Guderian, Zeitzler, and Fromm to discuss what?
(a) Problems caused by other men in the inner circle.
(b) Problems caused by Hitler assuming command but not exercising it.
(c) Problems caused by Hitler's mental illness.
(d) Problems caused by the Allied forces.

Short Answer Questions

1. Speer points to the ongoing danger of what in the age of modern technology?

2. After the invasions of Africa and Italy, Hitler is certain what can happen?

3. What is another of Hitler's worst mistakes?

4. How long does Speer spend in a hospital?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. How does the book end?

4. What does Bormann call Speer? Why?

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

10. What happens to Speer and the other defendants at Nuremberg?

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