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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. Industrialists give sober reports. How do Hitler and the generals react?
(a) They believe the reports.
(b) They listen to the reports.
(c) They condemn the reports as pessimistic.
(d) They laugh at the reports.

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

3. What does Walter Rohland hope Speer can prevent?
(a) A "scorched earth" policy.
(b) "Operational warfare."
(c) The invasion of Germany.
(d) War.

4. Speer is ready to give in to the Gauleiters' pressure to control armaments production and ready to give in for lack of support unless Hitler does what?
(a) Clarifies the chain of command.
(b) Steps down.
(c) Helps him.
(d) Puts him in charge.

5. What city surrenders peacefully?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Hamburg.
(c) Dresden.
(d) Frankfort.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Speer and Milch are alarmed that American bomber production is far outstripping Germany's. Hitler and Goering insist that it is what?

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

4. What are civilians begging the army not to do?

5. Speer keeps up his busy schedule and, hearing of Bormann and Sauckel's machinations, twice writes Hitler, for what reason?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How does Chapter 33 open, regarding Doenitz?

7. What takes place during an evening with Hitler?

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

9. What does Bormann call Speer? Why?

10. Describe Hitler in the fall of 1943.

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