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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. Ley and Himmler both challenge Speer's authority at Peenemünde during what?
(a) His time as leader of the Armaments Ministry.
(b) The Allied bombing.
(c) His hospitalization.
(d) His visit with his family.

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

3. What does Hitler do as the crisis deepens?
(a) He begins to think more rationally.
(b) He further closes his mind.
(c) He becomes closer to his people.
(d) He listens to Speer.

4. Speer holds off Hitler's orders by suggesting what?
(a) The POWs be allowed to escape.
(b) All leaders go into hiding.
(c) Reconquest is still possible.
(d) Demolition of only the bridges to the cities.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does this bombing do?

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

3. Based on a quotation from MEIN KAMPF about the duty of the people to revolt against state tyranny, Speer plans to kill Hitler, Bormann, Goebbels, and Ley by doing what?

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

5. Speer helps the United States Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS) evaluate the air war in what atmosphere?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the Allies able to invade Germany? How does Hitler deal with this invasion?

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

10. How does the book end?

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