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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. To where does Himmler flee?
(a) The Black Forest.
(b) Paris.
(c) Stockholm.
(d) Prague.

2. Speer is allowed to state his views but forbidden to do what?
(a) Share them with Hitler.
(b) Keep them to himself.
(c) Share them with others.
(d) Announce them to the public.

3. The ______ defendants are separated from other prisoners, given intelligence tests, and handed copies of the indictments.
(a) 21.
(b) 11.
(c) 31.
(d) 41.

4. Speer remembers the human kindness shown by whom?
(a) His jailers.
(b) The Americans.
(c) His men.
(d) The other prisoners.

5. Speer helps the United States Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS) evaluate the air war in what atmosphere?
(a) A nervous one.
(b) An angry one.
(c) A comradely one.
(d) An anxious one.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what does the leadership--Speer included--live?

2. Fromm orders summary courts martial and execution of the conspirators, including who?

3. Hitler is more shaken by damage reports than __________ and orders impossible repairs of theaters to keep up public morale.

4. By the autumn of 1943, Speer feels insecure in his own Ministry and begins consolidating his position by doing what?

5. When Hitler demands ruthless "scorched earth," Speer tries to inspire sympathy for evacuees and reminds him that his order shows a loss of hope. Why does Hitler go along with this?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Speer help evacuees during Hitler's "scorched earth" plan?

4. How does Chapter 27 open?

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

6. What are Hitler's worst decisions?

7. How does Chapter 33 open, regarding Doenitz?

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

9. 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?

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

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