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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 not like about German-speaking Jews?

2. Hitler attends the lecture he is assigned to cover and finds how many people there?

3. Why does Hitler travel to Vienna?

4. In what do the soldiers now have the right to engage?

5. How does Hitler find the soldiers to be?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the Americans and English use propaganda effectively?

2. What wars does Hitler follow with interest?

3. What are Hitler's thoughts about the plight of the peasant boy?

4. What does the year 1915 mark? What happens by 1918?

5. What is Hitler's impression of the lecture? What does Hitler do at this lecture?

6. What does Hitler believe are the desires of many? How does Hitler hope to take advantage of this?

7. What are Hitler's thoughts on nationalism and Germanization?

8. How does Hitler feel when he moves to Munich? What does he do when he first arrives?

9. What does Hitler think about the press, as well as those that read what is printed?

10. When Hitler feels that he cannot join any of the existing political parties, what does he decide to do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Hitler's parents die when he is a teenager.

Part 1) How do their deaths affect him?

Part 2) How does the government's policy on dealing with orphans also affect Hitler's life?

Part 3) How might Hitler's life have turned out differently, if his parents had survived to see him reach adulthood?

Essay Topic 2

The National Socialist German Worker's Party is the first party that does not support a return to the past.

Part 1) Why do they not support a return to the past? Describe the form of government this program clearly defines.

Part 2) What becomes of the monitor service? Why? What does this change foreshadow? Explain.

Part 3) Hitler says the SA must be developed into the party's guard and it must number in the hundreds of thousands. Do you believe he was later able to do this? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

Hitler wants to be an artist.

Part 1) Is he a professional artist? Why is his career cut short?

Part 2) How does his inability to study the art form he would like lead him down another path?

Part 3) How different might Hitler's life have been, if he had been given the opportunity to work in the style he preferred? Why?

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