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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapters 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 Government Buildings and the pavilion at the Paris World's Fair.
(b) The Government Buildings and the pavilion at the St. Louis World's Fair.
(c) The Olympic Stadium and the pavilion at the Paris World's Fair.
(d) The Olympic Stadium and the pavilion at the St. Louis World's Fair.

2. What takes place in 1927?
(a) Speer becomes a part of Hitler's inner circle.
(b) Speer meets his wife.
(c) Speer begins architecture school.
(d) Speer passes his architect's license examination and marries Margarete Weber.

3. Hitler is self-controlled but stages what for effect?
(a) Movies.
(b) Plays.
(c) Outbursts.
(d) Comedies.

4. When does Troost die?
(a) 1924.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1928.
(d) 1934.

5. How old is Speer at this point?
(a) 20.
(b) 38.
(c) 30.
(d) 28.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Speer build grand halls and salons?

2. Hitler views grand buildings as what?

3. Driving to Nuremberg with Hitler, Speer sees mobs of cheering people slow the car as Hitler brags about what?

4. In what does Hitler take little interest?

5. Ruthless Martin Bormann is master of the mountain. Does anyone sense his threat?

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