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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 does this bombing do?

2. Doenitz signs Speer's edict against demolition and encourages him to address the people for what reason?

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

4. Ley and Himmler both challenge Speer's authority at Peenemünde during what?

5. What does Hitler do as the crisis deepens?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the book end?

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

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

4. What does Hitler do regarding the Todt Organization's building of defensive positions on the Dnieper? Why does he do this? How does this affect Germany?

5. How does Chapter 27 open?

6. What takes place during an evening with Hitler?

7. What does Bormann call Speer? Why?

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

9. How does Chapter 29 find Speer?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Speer runs the Armaments Ministry.

Part 1) What is the Armaments Ministry? How does he get this job? How does the Armaments Ministry benefit from Speer?

Part 2) How does Speer use his talents as an architect to be successful running the Armaments Ministry?

Part 3) How do Hitler and his men feel about the way Speer runs the Armaments Ministry? How does this affect Speer?

Essay Topic 2

Hitler is sure of victory after exterminating every traitor.

Part 1) How does he come to believe this? How does he attempt to follow through with this belief? How is Speer saved from this?

Part 2) If he could have exterminated every traitor, could he have been victorious? Why or why not? What does this belief reveal about Hitler?

Part 3) What could Hitler have done to be victorious? Use the text to support your response.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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