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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Had the Allies concentrated on attacking _____________ the war would have been lost by 1943.
(a) Hitler's bunker.
(b) Berlin.
(c) The coastline.
(d) Key armaments factories.

2. He rages against the British and the Jews and demands retaliatory raids without what?
(a) Battle plans.
(b) Planes or bombs.
(c) Maps.
(d) Rations.

3. As the General Staff desires, the Todt Organization begins building defensive positions on the Dnieper. Why does Hitler order this work stopped?
(a) He considers this work to be defeatist.
(b) He realizes it is futile.
(c) He wants to surrender.
(d) He considers this work to be too optimistic.

4. Speer is ready to give in to the Gauleiters' pressure to control armaments production and ready to give in for lack of support unless Hitler does what?
(a) Steps down.
(b) Helps him.
(c) Puts him in charge.
(d) Clarifies the chain of command.

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

6. While Speer recovers for six weeks with his family, what happens?
(a) Would-be successors vie for his position.
(b) The war ends.
(c) The Allies bomb Berlin.
(d) Hitler commits suicide.

7. Smelling danger, Bormann calls Speer an enemy of the Party who intends to do what?
(a) Kill Hitler.
(b) Succeed Hitler.
(c) Help the Allies.
(d) Destroy Germany.

8. Speer wonders if he looks as rundown as who?
(a) His men.
(b) The other prisoners.
(c) The concentration camp survivors.
(d) The Allies.

9. When did Col. Claus von Stauffenberg try to assassinate Hitler?
(a) On April 20, 1944.
(b) On September 20, 1944.
(c) On July 20, 1944.
(d) On November 20, 1944.

10. Speer is reluctant to accept the "Central Works" under what?
(a) SS auspices.
(b) Himmler's authority.
(c) Labor Services auspices.
(d) Hitler's authority.

11. Hitler refuses to take ___________ that Morell recommends?
(a) Naps.
(b) Pills.
(c) The long walks.
(d) Vacations.

12. Back in Berlin, Speer learns that his name appears in the rebels' planned government, but what saves his life?
(a) The annotation, "Probably not."
(b) The annotation, "If possible?"
(c) The annotation, "Hitler's friend."
(d) The annotation, "Competent?"

13. Are Speer's efforts to improve living conditions successful?
(a) Yes, mostly.
(b) Yes, completely.
(c) Yes, partially.
(d) No.

14. Speer keeps up his busy schedule and, hearing of Bormann and Sauckel's machinations, twice writes Hitler, for what reason?
(a) To see how he is feeling.
(b) To ask him to visit him in the hospital.
(c) To protest disloyalty and request unconditional authority.
(d) To send his reports.

15. Speer breaks taboo by doing what?
(a) Being honest with Hitler regarding his beliefs.
(b) Leaving the country.
(c) Yelling at Hitler.
(d) Sending out a circular letter about avoiding destruction on principle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Based on a quotation from MEIN KAMPF about the duty of the people to revolt against state tyranny, Speer plans to kill Hitler, Bormann, Goebbels, and Ley by doing what?

2. Speer waives appeal to how many years imprisonment?

3. Speer warns Hitler that the end is near but is ignored and told to do what to support the decisive offensive Hitler is launching in the West?

4. After coldly rejecting Speer's plan for a joint operation with the Air Force, Hitler visits the sickroom, hearing what?

5. Justice Robert H. Jackson delivers a devastating opening address, and how many months of testimony and documents detail the Nazi horror?

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