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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Shirer on December 10, 1939?
(a) Paris.
(b) London.
(c) Rome.
(d) Berlin.

2. Where did the Nazis fight the Heimsehr?
(a) In Austria.
(b) In Germany.
(c) In Britain.
(d) In France.

3. Who did Shirer say Hitler met with in February 1938?
(a) Chamberlin.
(b) Schuschnigg.
(c) Churchill.
(d) Stalin.

4. Where did Shirer return on December 1, 1939?
(a) Prague.
(b) Zurich.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Geneva.

5. Where did Hitler give his speech after the surrender of the Poles?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Warsaw.
(c) Danzig.
(d) Zurich.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Shirer have to do during his first assignment for his new employer in 1937?

2. What treaty did Hitler disregard in March 1936?

3. When was Shirer offered a position in Berlin?

4. Who returned to Berlin in August 1939?

5. What did William Shirer do during the year prior to the start of Part I, pgs. 4-44?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to a large portion of the Polish population by the end of January?

2. What did war correspondents discuss in August in Berlin according to Part I, pgs. 165-206?

3. What did Roosevelt ask Congress?

4. What did Hitler say in his speech on September 17 according to Part II, pgs. 207-248?

5. What did Shirer inform the Germans of?

6. What was announced at a press conference on March 16 and what did people wonder?

7. What made the German people realize how close the war was?

8. Where did Shirer travel on February 12?

9. What were Americans in Berlin advised of at the end of August?

10. What did the Czechoslovakian government claim in Part I, pgs. 125-165 and what did Shirer do?

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