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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 enters Hitler's inner circle in Berlin and at his mountain retreat at Obersalzberg and meets _____________.
(a) Goebbels.
(b) Ernst Roehm.
(c) Martin Bormann.
(d) Eva Braun.

2. What teaches Speer how to adjust to adversity?
(a) His poor upbringing.
(b) His physical problems.
(c) His school.
(d) His father.

3. Driving to Nuremberg with Hitler, Speer sees mobs of cheering people slow the car as Hitler brags about what?
(a) How intelligent he is.
(b) How much fun his job is.
(c) Only Luther has so stirred Germans.
(d) How wealthy he is.

4. Had Speer known about Hitler's intentions, what would he have done?
(a) Left the party and/or Germany.
(b) Started his own party.
(c) Murdered Hitler.
(d) Joined the party.

5. Speer redesigns Zeppelin Field in Nuremberg as ________________ stone structure destined to remain for ages as a witness to the greatness of the builders' epoch.
(a) A Baroque-influenced.
(b) An Ionic-influenced.
(c) A Corinthean-influenced.
(d) A Doric-influenced.

Short Answer Questions

1. Speer notes that great building in antiquity is normally done by whom?

2. Hitler approves Speer's _______________ for future building.

3. How does Speer benefit from helping this person?

4. What does Hitler have Speer do to his Berlin office?

5. Speer masses 130 searchlights to create the first ____________ and masses striking swastika flags to disguise drab façades.

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