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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. Assuming that the Allies need a large port to land, what does Hitler do?
(a) He destroys all the ports.
(b) He arms the ports but leaves coastal areas sparsely protected.
(c) He protects the coastal area and leaves the ports sparsely protected.
(d) He sets a trap at all the ports.

2. 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?
(a) Shooting them.
(b) Introducing poison gas into the bunker's ventilation shaft.
(c) Strangling them.
(d) Having the Allies kill them.

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

4. Operation Valkyrie provides for the fast mobilization of the _________________ men always on furlough in Germany as a "Home Army" to face emergencies.
(a) 300.
(b) 300,000.
(c) 30,000.
(d) 3,000.

5. Speer helps the United States Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS) evaluate the air war in what atmosphere?
(a) A nervous one.
(b) An angry one.
(c) A comradely one.
(d) An anxious one.

Short Answer Questions

1. Industrialists give sober reports. How do Hitler and the generals react?

2. Doenitz opposes any more offensive measures but wants what?

3. Are Speer's efforts to improve living conditions successful?

4. As the General Staff desires, the Todt Organization begins building defensive positions on the Dnieper. Why does Hitler order this work stopped?

5. Hitler believes he will still be able to retire to _______ and studies plans.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Chapter 33 open, regarding Doenitz?

3. What does Speer convince Hitler to do regarding Russian prisoners? Why is this, in the end, not necessary?

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

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

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

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

8. What are Hitler's worst decisions?

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

10. What does Bormann call Speer? Why?

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