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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 Hitler do as the crisis deepens?

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

3. When did Col. Claus von Stauffenberg try to assassinate Hitler?

4. The Soviet offensive begins when?

5. Hitler raises the specter of using the nerve agent _________ against the Soviets.

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Hitler's worst decisions?

2. How does Chapter 29 find Speer?

3. What is Himmler's reaction at the end of the war?

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

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

6. How does the book end?

7. How does Chapter 28 open?

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

9. What does Bormann call Speer? Why?

10. How does Chapter 27 open?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

Speer warns Hitler that the end is near.

Part 1) How does he know this? Why does he do this? How does Hitler react to this? Why does he react this way?

Part 2) Does Hitler have just cause to react the way he does? Why or why not?

Part 3) How does the end come? Are you surprised by the way the various leaders handle the end? Why or why not?

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