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

2. In what does the leadership--Speer included--live?
(a) "Peace and harmony."
(b) "Dissimulation and hypocrisy."
(c) A bunker.
(d) "Wealth and affluence."

3. Seeing the futility of the war, Speer is tempted simply to do what?
(a) Disappear.
(b) Die.
(c) Join the Allied forces.
(d) Sleep.

4. As the General Staff desires, the Todt Organization begins building defensive positions on the Dnieper. Why does Hitler order this work stopped?
(a) He wants to surrender.
(b) He considers this work to be defeatist.
(c) He considers this work to be too optimistic.
(d) He realizes it is futile.

5. Are Speer's efforts to improve living conditions successful?
(a) Yes, mostly.
(b) No.
(c) Yes, partially.
(d) Yes, completely.

Short Answer Questions

1. Speer waives appeal to how many years imprisonment?

2. Speer resorts to lies and deception for what reason?

3. Of what is Speer found guilty?

4. Chapter 28, "The Plunge," opens with Hitler again supporting ____________ against Speer.

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Chapter 27 open?

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

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

5. How does Chapter 28 open?

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

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

8. What does the Allied bombing on November 12, 1944 do to Germany? What are the reactions to this bombing?

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

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

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