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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. What is another of Hitler's worst mistakes?
(a) Retaliating against England with the large, expensive, but minimally destructive V-2 rockets at the expense of ground-to-air rockets.
(b) Retaliating against Poland with the large, expensive, but minimally destructive V-2 rockets at the expense of ground-to-air rockets.
(c) Retaliating against France with the large, expensive, but minimally destructive V-2 rockets at the expense of ground-to-air rockets.
(d) Retaliating against teh Soviets with the large, expensive, but minimally destructive V-2 rockets at the expense of ground-to-air rockets.

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

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

4. Himmler refuses to be excluded from what?
(a) Decisions being made.
(b) Surrender.
(c) Hitler's inner circle.
(d) The government.

5. Hitler is more shaken by damage reports than __________ and orders impossible repairs of theaters to keep up public morale.
(a) Allied invasions.
(b) Propaganda.
(c) Battles.
(d) Casualties.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Doenitz puts naval procurement under Speer, what happens?

2. Declaring Stalin right in 1937 to have purged his generals, Hitler is sure of victory after doing what?

3. When did Col. Claus von Stauffenberg try to assassinate Hitler?

4. Back in Berlin, Speer learns that his name appears in the rebels' planned government, but what saves his life?

5. What city surrenders peacefully?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Chapter 27 open?

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

3. What takes place during an evening with Hitler?

4. How does Chapter 28 open?

5. Describe Hitler in the fall of 1943.

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

7. 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?

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

9. How does Chapter 33 open, regarding Doenitz?

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

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