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

2. What did the government declare Paris to be in June 1940?
(a) A point of resistance.
(b) An open city.
(c) A free zone.
(d) A lost cause.

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

4. What did Shirer see as he arrived at his hotel on May 21, 1940?
(a) German bombers.
(b) British bombers.
(c) French bombers.
(d) Italian bombers.

5. What did the Germans hope the Americans would do in the territories occupied in 1939-1940?
(a) Supply oil.
(b) Supply food.
(c) Supply lodging.
(d) Supply money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Shirer say he asked himself at the end of September 1940?

2. What did Shirer notice when he visited the Calais front?

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

4. When did Shirer return to Berlin?

5. When did Shirer return to Berlin after attending the meeting of the International Broadcasting Union in Lausanne?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened between March 13 and March 17?

2. What ceremony did Shirer cover on June 21?

3. What happened to all of Shirer's broadcasts?

4. What did Shirer conclude about the French and what did many feel?

5. What did a speech given by Roosevelt on June 11 promise?

6. What did the Germans begin in mid-August?

7. What marked the end of the Reich's second phase?

8. What did Shirer wonder about himself?

9. Why was Shirer in Lausanne on April 23 and when did he return to Berlin?

10. What did Shirer notice when he traveled to the front on May 19?

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