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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. After coldly rejecting Speer's plan for a joint operation with the Air Force, Hitler visits the sickroom, hearing what?
(a) Speer is lonely.
(b) Speer is dying.
(c) Speer has asked for him.
(d) Speer is depressed.

2. 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?
(a) Shooting them.
(b) Having the Allies kill them.
(c) Introducing poison gas into the bunker's ventilation shaft.
(d) Strangling them.

3. He says his fate matters little when weighed against what?
(a) His actions in the name of Germany.
(b) The number of people who died during World War II.
(c) The fate of the civilians during World War II.
(d) The need to unify human beings against misuse of technology.

4. Declaring Stalin right in 1937 to have purged his generals, Hitler is sure of victory after doing what?
(a) Exterminating every traitor.
(b) Bribing his generals.
(c) Spying on his generals.
(d) Killing every general.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does this bombing do?

3. Doenitz opposes any more offensive measures but wants what?

4. What is one of Hitler's worst decisions?

5. Himmler refuses to be excluded from what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Hitler's worst decisions?

2. What does Hitler do when he ignores Speer's calls to cripple key Allied resources? How does he then calm Speer's fears of an armaments collapse?

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

4. How does Chapter 27 open?

5. What takes place while Speers is in the hospital for two months?

6. What happens when Speers warns Hitler that the end is near?

7. How does Speer quickly save his ability to influence Hitler?

8. What takes place during an evening with Hitler?

9. What does Hitler say during his last radio address?

10. How does Speer's exuberance at German successes begin to cool? What saves Germany at this point?

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