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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapters 27-32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The blossoming of Speer's career follows ___________ of Ernst Roehm.
(a) The "blood purge."
(b) The promotion.
(c) The leadership.
(d) The death.

2. Does Speer read MEIN KAMPF?
(a) The first half.
(b) No.
(c) One page.
(d) Yes.

3. In the summer of 1939, Hitler menacingly orders the eagle on the dome to clutch in its claws what?
(a) Not a swastika but a snake.
(b) Not a swastika but a globe.
(c) Not a globe but a swastika.
(d) Not a globe but an olive leaf.

4. Speer goes beyond Hitler's "megalomaniacal notions" in planning urban renewal with a free hand and rescues two international events after the original designers offend Hitler's aesthetics. What are these two events?
(a) The Olympic Stadium and the pavilion at the Paris World's Fair.
(b) The Government Buildings and the pavilion at the Paris World's Fair.
(c) The Government Buildings and the pavilion at the St. Louis World's Fair.
(d) The Olympic Stadium and the pavilion at the St. Louis World's Fair.

5. Once Hitler sees a military angle, he pushes production and Himmler offers who as workers?
(a) His family.
(b) Military prisoners.
(c) His SS men.
(d) Concentration camp prisoners.

Short Answer Questions

1. Speer keeps up his busy schedule and, hearing of Bormann and Sauckel's machinations, twice writes Hitler, for what reason?

2. Who does Speer help deal with Berlin contractors in rebuilding the decrepit Chancellery?

3. Speer tries not to look like what to the staff?

4. What door is opened upon Troost's death?

5. What do Bormann, Keitel, and Lammers form to insulate Hitler from others?

(see the answer key)

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