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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 is one of Hitler's worst decisions?

2. Justice Robert H. Jackson delivers a devastating opening address, and how many months of testimony and documents detail the Nazi horror?

3. Speer is allowed to state his views but forbidden to do what?

4. What city surrenders peacefully?

5. The ______ defendants are separated from other prisoners, given intelligence tests, and handed copies of the indictments.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the book end?

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

4. What are Hitler's worst decisions?

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

6. What takes place during an evening with Hitler?

7. Describe Hitler in the fall of 1943.

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

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

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

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

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?

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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