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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 shortage did Shirer describe as being worse than ever?
(a) Oil.
(b) Iron.
(c) Food.
(d) Coal.

2. What did Shirer say Germany could not survive?
(a) The military war.
(b) The war on terror.
(c) The economic war.
(d) The propaganda war.

3. What right did the broadcaster have regarding censorship?
(a) To leave the country.
(b) To broadcast what they wanted.
(c) They had the right to decline to broadcast.
(d) To have forwards saying that it was censored.

4. Who arrived in Berlin on November 12, 1940?
(a) Shirer.
(b) Molotov.
(c) Stalin.
(d) Chamberlain.

5. What was required of the French delegation in order to sign an armistice with Italy?
(a) Fly to Italy.
(b) Speak only Italian.
(c) Give away their Navy.
(d) Travel to Nice.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the government declare Paris to be in June 1940?

3. How long did the German plan account for the total destruction of the Royal Air Force (RAF)?

4. What did General von Reichenau command on May 20, 1940?

5. When were the Germans entering Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the German troops do on May 1?

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

3. What ceremony did Shirer cover on June 21?

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

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

6. What did Shirer feel about the British?

7. What did many journalists do in Belgium?

8. Which of Hitler's plans were revealed on July 25?

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

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

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