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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 warns Hitler that the end is near but is ignored and told to do what to support the decisive offensive Hitler is launching in the West?
(a) Build armaments factories.
(b) Build monuments.
(c) Build bridges.
(d) Build government buildings.

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

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

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

5. 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 realizes it is futile.
(d) He considers this work to be too optimistic.

Short Answer Questions

1. As "Operation Citadel" opens, Speer convinces Hitler to spare who to serve as armaments laborers?

2. Himmler refuses to be excluded from what?

3. Operation Valkyrie provides for the fast mobilization of the _________________ men always on furlough in Germany as a "Home Army" to face emergencies.

4. Why is the Battle of the Bulge lost?

5. Speer is allowed to state his views but forbidden to do what?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

6. What are Hitler's worst decisions?

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

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

9. How does Chapter 28 open?

10. How does the book end?

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