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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. What city surrenders peacefully?

2. Speer points to the ongoing danger of what in the age of modern technology?

3. After the invasions of Africa and Italy, Hitler is certain what can happen?

4. To where does Himmler flee?

5. Himmler refuses to be excluded from what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Speer say about the danger of dictatorships?

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

3. 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?

4. What are Hitler's worst decisions?

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

6. How does the book end?

7. How are the Allies able to invade Germany? How does Hitler deal with this invasion?

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

9. What takes place during an evening with Hitler?

10. Describe Hitler in the fall of 1943.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Hitler demands ruthless "scorched earth."

Part 1) What is "scorched earth?" How and why does Speer try to stop this? What does this reinforce about Hitler's personality?

Part 2) How might this have affected the Allies? How might this have also affected the Germans?

Part 3) Might this tactic be used today? If so, when and how? If not, why not?

Essay Topic 2

Speer exploits the captured countries to produce civilian goods.

Part 1) How does he go about doing this? Why does he do this? How does this benefit Germany?

Part 2) How does the production of weaponry become an issue in this book? How does it affect the war?

Part 3) How does this exploitation affect your opinion of Speer? Should he exploit captured countries in this way? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Hitler calls for making Berlin so beautiful that no one will care if Paris is destroyed.

Part 1) What do others think about this statement? How does this threaten Paris, France as a whole, and other nations?

Part 2) What does this statement reveal about Hitler? How does Speer go about making this statement true?

Part 3) Does Berlin ever gain popularity as a city more beautiful than Paris? Why or why not?

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