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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When were Tess and Eileen supposed to leave for the Americas according to Part II, pgs. 532-575?
(a) End of September.
(b) End of October.
(c) Mid-October.
(d) Start of October.

2. Where was Shirer on July 4, 1940?
(a) In Poland with the 5th Panzer army.
(b) In Berlin with Murrow.
(c) With his family in Geneva.
(d) With Hitler in the Alps.

3. When were Hitler's plans for the new order revealed?
(a) July 26, 1940.
(b) July 25, 1941.
(c) July 25, 1940.
(d) August 25, 1940.

4. What did Shirer say many of the journalists did in Belgium?
(a) Shopped for things impossible to find in Germany.
(b) Fled to England.
(c) Found memorabilia of the war.
(d) Transmitted news without censors.

5. Where was the only accessible place in western continental Europe where one could take a plane or boat to the Americas in October 1940?
(a) Madrid, Spain.
(b) Rome, Italy.
(c) Lisbon, Portugal.
(d) Dunkirk, France.

6. How did Germany justify their entering Holland, Belgium and Luxemburg?
(a) England and France were planning to invade through them.
(b) They were planning on invading Germany.
(c) They were supporting France and Britain.
(d) They were not supporting Germany.

7. What did the Germans tell the journalists they flew to Hamburg?
(a) They were prisoners of the Third Reich.
(b) They were free to go back to England.
(c) That they could see whatever they wanted.
(d) They had to be supervised.

8. What did Shirer notice about the Dutch and Belgium retreat?
(a) They did not blow up the bridges.
(b) They did not lay land mines.
(c) They did not form partisan groups.
(d) They did not attack Germany's rears.

9. What prevented many German public schools from opening according to Shirer?
(a) Lack of coal.
(b) The draft.
(c) Lack of oil.
(d) The arrest of Jewish teachers.

10. When did Shirer say he and other journalists traveled to the front in Belgium and Holland?
(a) May 9, 1940.
(b) May 19, 1941.
(c) June 19, 1940.
(d) May 19, 1940.

11. What rumor was Shirer concerned about in mid-October 1940?
(a) Hitler attacking Russia.
(b) A successful landing of German troops in England.
(c) Hitler's assassination.
(d) Hitler taking Gibraltar.

12. When did Tess and Eileen depart Geneva?
(a) October 23, 1941.
(b) October 24, 1940.
(c) October 23, 1940.
(d) September 23, 1940.

13. What countries did Tess make plans to leave Germany through?
(a) France and Morocco.
(b) Russia.
(c) Britain.
(d) Spain and Portugal.

14. Why didn't Shirer want Tess to leave through Paris?
(a) There was no plan for Spain in Paris.
(b) It was too much of a trip for her and the child.
(c) Germans would reach it before she did.
(d) Paris was full of fleeing civilians.

15. Who provided Shirer's transmitters for his reports on the war?
(a) The French.
(b) The BBC.
(c) The Germans.
(d) The Polish.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Shirer say a victory parade was held in Berlin after the victory against the France?

2. When did the Germans start bombing the Stromness and Kinkwall bases?

3. What did Shirer notice when visiting the front on May 20, 1940?

4. When was Geneva bombed according to Shirer?

5. What did Hitler demand of England in order to talk peace?

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