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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Fromm orders summary courts martial and execution of the conspirators, including who?

2. What does Hitler do as the crisis deepens?

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

4. Doenitz struggles to think outside what?

5. Hitler refuses to take ___________ that Morell recommends?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the Allied bombing on November 12, 1944 do to Germany? What are the reactions to this bombing?

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

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

4. Describe Hitler in the fall of 1943.

5. What takes place while Speer recovers for six weeks?

6. How does the book end?

7. How are the Allies able to invade Germany? How does Hitler deal with this invasion?

8. What are Hitler's worst decisions?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Speer's influence shrinks.

Part 1) How does he first gain influence? How does he then lose this influence?

Part 2) How do the events at the time affect Speer's influence? How does Speer's influence continue to fluctuate through this book? Why does it fluctuate?

Part 3) How do others' opinions of Hitler's men influence Hitler's opinion of Speer?

Essay Topic 2

Speer builds grand halls and salons to impress on dignitaries that Hitler is "one of the greatest men in history."

Part 1) Why does Speer do this? Does he believe Hitler is "one of the greatest men in history?" Why or why not?

Part 2) Why might these grand halls and salons give dignitaries the impression that Hitler is a great man?

Part 3) What does Speer think of these grand structures at the time he builds them? How does he feel about these structures later in life? Why?

Part 4) How might these structures be viewed today? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Hitler is sure of victory after exterminating every traitor.

Part 1) How does he come to believe this? How does he attempt to follow through with this belief? How is Speer saved from this?

Part 2) If he could have exterminated every traitor, could he have been victorious? Why or why not? What does this belief reveal about Hitler?

Part 3) What could Hitler have done to be victorious? Use the text to support your response.

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