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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. Speer is allowed to state his views but forbidden to do what?
(a) Share them with others.
(b) Announce them to the public.
(c) Share them with Hitler.
(d) Keep them to himself.

2. Speer waives appeal to how many years imprisonment?
(a) 20.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 10.

3. What city surrenders peacefully?
(a) Frankfort.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Dresden.
(d) Hamburg.

4. Speer sees Hitler's life "ebbing away" and his own later experience suggests that Hitler has what?
(a) Anxiety disorder.
(b) Schizophrenia.
(c) A prisoner's psychology.
(d) Depression.

5. As "Operation Citadel" opens, Speer convinces Hitler to spare who to serve as armaments laborers?
(a) Russian prisoners.
(b) British prisoners.
(c) French prisoners.
(d) Polish prisoners.

Short Answer Questions

1. Speer helps the United States Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS) evaluate the air war in what atmosphere?

2. When Hitler demands ruthless "scorched earth," Speer tries to inspire sympathy for evacuees and reminds him that his order shows a loss of hope. Why does Hitler go along with this?

3. Hitler refuses to believe that who cannot overrun the Americans?

4. Back in Berlin, Speer learns that his name appears in the rebels' planned government, but what saves his life?

5. Once Hitler sees a military angle, he pushes production and Himmler offers who as workers?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Chapter 27 open?

2. What does Speer say about the danger of dictatorships?

3. How does Chapter 33 open, regarding Doenitz?

4. How does Speer's life become threatened? How is his life spared?

5. What meeting does Speer mediate? Why? What is the result of this meeting?

6. How does the book end?

7. What is Operation Valkyrie? What is the result of this operation?

8. What does Speer convince Hitler to do regarding Russian prisoners? Why is this, in the end, not necessary?

9. What happens to Speer as the war comes to an end?

10. What are Hitler's worst decisions?

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