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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Speer helps the United States Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS) evaluate the air war in what atmosphere?
(a) An anxious one.
(b) A comradely one.
(c) A nervous one.
(d) An angry one.

3. Speer mediates a meeting of Goering, Guderian, Zeitzler, and Fromm to discuss what?
(a) Problems caused by Hitler assuming command but not exercising it.
(b) Problems caused by other men in the inner circle.
(c) Problems caused by the Allied forces.
(d) Problems caused by Hitler's mental illness.

4. Of what is Speer found guilty?
(a) Requisitioning foreign workers and not caring for them adequately.
(b) Fighting the Allied forces.
(c) Being a member of Hitler's inner circle.
(d) Allowing concentration camp victims to be used for slave labor.

5. Doenitz signs Speer's edict against demolition and encourages him to address the people for what reason?
(a) To calm their fears.
(b) Speer is now in charge.
(c) To counteract lethargy.
(d) To let them know they have not been abandoned.

6. Hitler is more shaken by damage reports than __________ and orders impossible repairs of theaters to keep up public morale.
(a) Battles.
(b) Propaganda.
(c) Casualties.
(d) Allied invasions.

7. Hitler refuses to believe that who cannot overrun the Americans?
(a) The Japanese.
(b) The average German soldier.
(c) The elite SS.
(d) The Soviets.

8. How does Hitler react to viewing Speer's photographs of fugitives?
(a) He shows no emotion.
(b) He is embarrassed.
(c) He becomes angry.
(d) He cries.

9. 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) Clarifies the chain of command.
(b) Helps him.
(c) Puts him in charge.
(d) Steps down.

10. Himmler refuses to be excluded from what?
(a) Decisions being made.
(b) Surrender.
(c) The government.
(d) Hitler's inner circle.

11. Doenitz opposes any more offensive measures but wants what?
(a) To stop refugees from reaching the West.
(b) To expedite refugees reaching the West.
(c) To slow refugees reaching the West.
(d) To help the Allies.

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

13. The Soviet offensive begins when?
(a) On November 12, 1945.
(b) On April 12, 1945.
(c) On June 12, 1945.
(d) On January 12, 1945.

14. When Speer and Guderian suggest to Hitler assigning an army Commander-in-Chief parallel with the autonomous chiefs of the Navy and Air Force, how does Hitler feel?
(a) Relieved.
(b) Worried.
(c) Unsure.
(d) Offended.

15. What are civilians begging the army not to do?
(a) Desert them.
(b) Give in to the Allies.
(c) Defend their towns.
(d) Retreat.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. 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?

4. Speer is reluctant to accept the "Central Works" under what?

5. Why does Speer's exuberance at German successes cool?

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