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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Speer help deal with Berlin contractors in rebuilding the decrepit Chancellery?

2. Speer notes that great building in antiquity is normally done by whom?

3. Himmler offers who to make bricks and quarry granite?

4. Speer masses 130 searchlights to create the first ____________ and masses striking swastika flags to disguise drab façades.

5. What teaches Speer how to adjust to adversity?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the "Committee of Three?"

2. Describe Speer's life while being a member of Hitler's entourage.

3. What leads to Speer being put in charge of the Ukraine?

4. What events take place that show Speer the true side of Hitler and his Nazi Party? How does Speer react to these events?

5. Describe Speer's success with Goebbels and Hitler. How is he finally able to impress Hitler?

6. What is taking place in Speer's life when he is called to rebuild the Berlin district headquarters? Why might this be?

7. What aspects of Speer's childhood helped to build his character and self-discipline?

8. Describe the massive building projects Hitler desires when Germany's prestige rises during the Berlin Olympic Games.

9. How do Speer's ideas clash with Hitler's and the ideas of others?

10. What is significant about 1934 for Speer?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Hitler is stuck in a World War I mentality.

Part 1) What is a World War I mentality? Why is Hitler stuck in this mentality?

Part 2) What does this mean for Speer, Speer's plans, and Hitler's own plans? How does this mentality reflect Hitler's personality?

Part 3) How does Hitler's war mentality evolve over time? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Speer feels the fallen rulers must accept collective guilt.

Part 1) Why does he believe this? How does this support what is known about his character?

Part 2) How do the others feel about taking responsibility for their actions? Why? Do they believe they are guilty? Why or why not?

Part 3) Does this help him at all during the Nuremberg trials? Why or why not? How does this guilt affect him for the rest of his life? Why does it affect him?

Essay Topic 3

Hitler aims for a Great Germanic Reich.

Part 1) Describe Hitler's plans for this Reich. How have his plans developed and evolved throughout this book? What does Speer think about these plans?

Part 2) How is this foreshadowed early in the book? Why do his plans for this powerful nation fall through?

Part 3) Why might this power be so important to Hitler? Why might he be able to convince others that they too want a powerful Germanic Reich?

Part 4) Who has power in your world? How have they come by this power? How do they deal with this power? How does it affect you?

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