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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When can Speer and his associates work on designs?
(a) Only when Hitler is sleeping.
(b) Only when Hitler is ill.
(c) Only when Hitler is in Berlin.
(d) Only when Hitler is in conferences.

3. When does Speer work for the Reich?
(a) As an old man.
(b) Late at night.
(c) In the morning.
(d) Day and night.

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

5. Hitler tells Speer to stop the conference for what reason?
(a) If there are difficulties.
(b) If it goes on for too long.
(c) If he becomes nervous.
(d) If the argument becomes heated.

Short Answer Questions

1. Speer warns that victory must come _______________.

2. Hitler calls for making Berlin so beautiful that no one will care if what happens?

3. Himmler offers who to make bricks and quarry granite?

4. Goering is jealous of the military impinging on what?

5. When Hitler first meets Margarete at an official reception, he predicts that her husband will erect buildings unseen in how many years?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is significant about 1934 for Speer?

2. What is the "Committee of Three?"

3. What comment does Hitler make about Berlin, compared to Paris?

4. What does Goering have Speer design? Why? Describe this building project.

5. Why is it surprising that Speer joined the Party?

6. How does Speer support and even surpass Hitler's desires?

7. How does Speer come to run the Armaments Ministry?

8. What leads to Speer's becoming the young man destined to design Hitler's legacy?

9. Describe Speer's success with Goebbels and Hitler. How is he finally able to impress Hitler?

10. What is interaction like at Obersalzberg?

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