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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people attend Hitler's daily afternoon dinners at which he is harsher than at Obersalzberg, offering monologues that show little growth since his "fertile" youth?
(a) 4-5.
(b) 400-500.
(c) 10-20.
(d) 40-50.

2. Hitler refuses Speer's call to employ who in factories?
(a) Jews.
(b) Children.
(c) Women.
(d) Catholics.

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

4. What does Hitler enjoy?
(a) Animals.
(b) Skiing.
(c) Nature and winter sports.
(d) Tramps through the public forest.

5. Germany's prestige rises during what?
(a) The Berlin Olympic Games.
(b) The Munich Olympic Games.
(c) The Salt Lake City Olympic Games.
(d) The Beijing Olympic Games.

6. 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.

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

8. How does Hitler eliminate an enormous threat?
(a) By attacking the Russians.
(b) By completing a nonaggression pact with Stalin.
(c) By attacking the British.
(d) By completing a nonaggresson pact with Churchill.

9. Himmler offers who to make bricks and quarry granite?
(a) Soldiers.
(b) His SS men.
(c) Prison and concentration camp workers.
(d) German civilians.

10. Speer warns that victory must come _______________.
(a) Steadily.
(b) Now.
(c) Quickly.
(d) Slowly.

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

12. Speer notes that great building in antiquity is normally done by whom?
(a) Famous architects.
(b) Artists.
(c) Despots.
(d) The wealthy.

13. In what does Hitler take little interest?
(a) Tramps through the public forest.
(b) Nature and winter sports.
(c) Vacations.
(d) The city.

14. For what does Hitler know he is destined?
(a) Greatness.
(b) Either for greatness or condemnation.
(c) Death.
(d) Condemnation.

15. Why does armament production never reach World War I levels?
(a) Because Germany is too poor.
(b) Because of bureaucratization Speer cannot control.
(c) Because Hitler will not allow it.
(d) Because Speer does not want it to.

Short Answer Questions

1. The East-West axis opens for traffic on the eve of what?

2. In 1939, Speer guarantees completion of the five-mile core by __________, with the massive cost being spread over many budgets.

3. Top figures in industry and government endorse Speer's scheme, and despite Goering's threat to resign as head of the Four-Year Plan and Speer's promise to work within his framework, Hitler gives Speer what?

4. What develops Speer's self-discipline and joy in taking common action?

5. Why does Goering have Speer design a new Air Ministry?

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