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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. Hearing Hitler's voice, Maj. Remer who commands the troops surrounding Goebbels' Ministry, declares his loyalty and by ______ has crushed the plot.

2. When the Soviets surround Nikopol, Speer calms Hitler about what?

3. When the Cabinet agrees to put all war production under Speer's control, what does Bormann do?

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

5. In what does the leadership--Speer included--live?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Speer's exuberance at German successes begin to cool? What saves Germany at this point?

2. What are Hitler's worst decisions?

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

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

5. Describe Hitler in the fall of 1943.

6. How does Chapter 29 find Speer?

7. How does the book end?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A massive bombing by the Allies occurs on November 12, 1944.

Part 1) Describe this bombing. How does it affect Germany? How is it foreshadowed in this book?

Part 2) What other tactics help the war swing in the Allies' favor? How are German military tactics partially responsible for the Allies' victories?

Part 3) How does this bombing represent the end for Germany?

Essay Topic 2

Speer sees the futility of war.

Part 1) How does he begin to see this? How does this affect his relationships with others? How does this affect his behavior?

Part 2) How does he try to warn and help Hitler? Why does Hitler not take him seriously?

Part 3) How might Hitler's Germany have ended up differently if he had listened to Speer?

Essay Topic 3

Speer is accepted into Hitler's inner circle.

Part 1) What leads to this acceptance? How does this change Speer's life? What do others think about this acceptance? Why?

Part 2) How does Hitler benefit from Speer's work? How influential is Speer's work in Hitler's Germanic Reich?

Part 3) How does Speer fall out of Hitler's good graces? What does this reveal about both Hitler and Speer?

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