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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. To where does Himmler flee?
(a) The Black Forest.
(b) Paris.
(c) Stockholm.
(d) Prague.

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

3. Speer remembers the human kindness shown by whom?
(a) The Americans.
(b) His jailers.
(c) His men.
(d) The other prisoners.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 28, "The Plunge," opens with Hitler again supporting ____________ against Speer.

2. Hearing Hitler's voice, Maj. Remer who commands the troops surrounding Goebbels' Ministry, declares his loyalty and by ______ has crushed the plot.

3. Speer wonders if he looks as rundown as who?

4. What does Walter Rohland hope Speer can prevent?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Speer help evacuees during Hitler's "scorched earth" plan?

4. How does Chapter 33 open, regarding Doenitz?

5. How does Chapter 28 open?

6. Describe Hitler in the fall of 1943.

7. What does Bormann call Speer? Why?

8. 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?

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

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

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