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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through '1939'.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word does Klemperer use for the first time (on April 9, 1939) to describe the German-Italian alliance?
(a) Italo-Prussian Alliance.
(b) Allies.
(c) Axis.
(d) Prusso-Italian Coalition.

2. For most of 1937, Klemperer finds himself believing that most Germans have always been somewhat ____________.
(a) Nationalistic.
(b) Pan-European.
(c) Isolationist.
(d) Anti-Semitic.

3. In May, Victor and Eva take a five-day automobile vacation. Which city is their first stop?
(a) Stuttgart.
(b) Dusseldorf.
(c) Munich.
(d) Strausberg.

4. To which location does Georg Klemperer first emigrate after the Nazis strip Jews of their citizenship and rights?
(a) London.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) Paris.
(d) Rome.

5. What happens to the books that the university library has to surrender to the authorities when said books are deemed to have failed censorship or not be fit for the average person?
(a) They are destroyed and the university receives no compensation.
(b) They are heavily censored and the authors are forced into Nazi re-education classes.
(c) They are destroyed and the authors are arrested for treason.
(d) They are heavily censored and then returned to the university.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of marriages are prohibited?

2. Which local German official begins a program of harassment against the Jews that results in fines levied against the Klemperers for things such as weeds in their yard?

3. What has happened to Klemperer's theory of the essential character of the German nation?

4. What happens to Klemperer's position after he leaves it?

5. What happens to Victor's sister, Grete, after she suffers a mental collapse and a heart attack?

(see the answer key)

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