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

2. Speer points to the ongoing danger of what in the age of modern technology?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Dictatorships.
(c) Nuclear weaponry.
(d) Prejudice.

3. Speer sees Hitler's life "ebbing away" and his own later experience suggests that Hitler has what?
(a) Schizophrenia.
(b) Depression.
(c) A prisoner's psychology.
(d) Anxiety disorder.

4. The Soviet offensive begins when?
(a) On November 12, 1945.
(b) On April 12, 1945.
(c) On June 12, 1945.
(d) On January 12, 1945.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Hitler do as the crisis deepens?

3. Why are there no prisoners?

4. What city surrenders peacefully?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Operation Valkyrie? What is the result of this operation?

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

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

6. 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?

7. How does Chapter 33 open, regarding Doenitz?

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

9. What does Bormann call Speer? Why?

10. How does the book end?

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