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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) 10-20.
(b) 400-500.
(c) 4-5.
(d) 40-50.

2. The East-West axis opens for traffic on the eve of what?
(a) Hitler's 40th birthday.
(b) Easter 1940.
(c) Hitler's 50th birthday.
(d) Christmas 1939.

3. Hitler approves Speer's _______________ for future building.
(a) "Theory of constraints."
(b) "Theory of reasoned action."
(c) "Theory of Ruin Value."
(d) "Theory of mind."

4. When Hitler first meets Margarete at an official reception, he predicts that her husband will erect buildings unseen in how many years?
(a) 40.
(b) 400.
(c) 4,000.
(d) 4.

5. How does Speer benefit from helping this person?
(a) He attracts Hitler's attention, is invited to dinner, and becomes the young man destined to design Hitler's legacy.
(b) He gets a raise.
(c) He gains new skills in the architectural field.
(d) He meets Hitler.

6. As Dr. Fritz Todt's Ministry of Armaments faces overwhelming tasks, Speer volunteers to do what?
(a) Take over his job.
(b) Tell Hitler he needs more help.
(c) Find him an assistant.
(d) Assist him.

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

8. In 1939, Speer guarantees completion of the five-mile core by __________, with the massive cost being spread over many budgets.
(a) 1950.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1955.

9. When Speer champions neglected nuclear research, Goering is again put in charge, but Hitler fails to grasp the potential of fission--"Jewish physics"--and instead concentrates on the ____________ rockets, which Speer considers a "misguided project."
(a) Monopropellant.
(b) Solid.
(c) Peenemünde.
(d) Hybrid.

10. What does Hitler have Speer do to his Berlin office?
(a) Rebuild it.
(b) Enlarge it and add a balcony.
(c) Redecorate it.
(d) Double it in size.

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

12. Speer grows prosperous but works too much to enjoy what?
(a) His job.
(b) His family.
(c) His friendship with Hitler.
(d) His life.

13. Hitler is unwilling to risk a revolution like ____________.
(a) 1881.
(b) 1908.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1891.

14. Who does this open door affect?
(a) Bormann.
(b) Linz.
(c) Bormann.
(d) Speer.

15. Hitler grows increasingly ____________ after the autumn of 1942 as his entourage convinces him that he has superhuman powers.
(a) Stubborn.
(b) Depressed.
(c) Worried.
(d) Unsure.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose assistant does Speer become?

2. Speer's Nuremberg building blends _________________________ but on a monumental scale.

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

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

5. What teaches Speer how to adjust to adversity?

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