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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the purpose of the offices of "science" that the Nazi government establishes?
(a) To develop an atomic weapon.
(b) To explain racial inferiority as a natural law.
(c) To help Germans better achieve economic domination.
(d) To develop better propaganda and indoctrination methods.
2. In late 1937, Hjalmar Schacht retires as the minister of ____________.
(a) Health.
(b) Environment.
(c) Economics.
(d) War.
3. Although all of the Klemperers are suffering from ill health and depression in 1940, what specifically happens to Grete?
(a) She suffers a mental breakdown and has to be hospitalized.
(b) She switches from fits of hysteria and almost unconsiousness on a daily basis.
(c) She becomes so depressed she stops talking altogether.
(d) She falls and breaks her arm, which is soon very badly infected.
4. In May, Victor and Eva take a five-day automobile vacation. Which city is their first stop?
(a) Dusseldorf.
(b) Stuttgart.
(c) Strausberg.
(d) Munich.
5. In which city does Klemperer note that Jews are rumored to have been forcibly relocated to ghettos?
(a) Baumholder.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Cologne.
(d) Hamburg.
6. By 1940, war _________ commonplace.
(a) Talk is.
(b) Related viruses are.
(c) Profiteering is.
(d) Crimes are.
7. Who accompanies the Klemperers to Berlin?
(a) Georg.
(b) Grete.
(c) Betty.
(d) Gusti.
8. Whom do the newspapers give the responsibility of breeding Nordic-blooded individuals to escape the taint of Jewry?
(a) The Gestapo.
(b) The SS.
(c) The Hitler Youth.
(d) The SA.
9. What city does Gusti Weighardt write the Klemperers she is moving to?
(a) London.
(b) Dublin.
(c) Amsterdam.
(d) Edinburgh.
10. While in Berlin, Klemperer learns that anti-government elements frequently copy thousands of subversive or censored handbills _______________ and distribute them secretly.
(a) At printing companies in neutral countries.
(b) In the United States.
(c) By hand.
(d) On underground printing presses.
11. Credible rumors circulate that Jews in occupied __________ are treated very severely.
(a) Holland.
(b) Czechoslovakia.
(c) Poland.
(d) Yugoslavia.
12. In 1938, Germany annexes __________ in a non-violent political victory known today as the Anschluss.
(a) Poland.
(b) The Sudetenland.
(c) Austria.
(d) Pomerania.
13. In December 1940, what are Jews ordered to begin wearing?
(a) Yellow shoes.
(b) Yellow armbands.
(c) Yellow jackets.
(d) Yellow yarmulkes.
14. What does Victor begin doing with his personal items?
(a) Giving them away.
(b) Selling them to pawnbrokers.
(c) Selling them in yard sales.
(d) Packing them in preparation for the move.
15. In what month of 1939 are the Klemperers notified that, beginning April 1940, their house will be rented to an Aryan?
(a) September.
(b) April.
(c) December.
(d) November.
Short Answer Questions
1. As Klemperer reads accounts of France and England's negotiations and compromises with Germany, he is especially disgusted with _____________'s compliant negotiations.
2. During 1940, so-called mixed-race Jews, who were previously allowed in the military, are:
3. By the middle of 1937, Victor and Eva are taking long country drives for what purpose?
4. The Nazis call the invasion of which country off?
5. In November 1939, an unsuccessful attempt is made to assassinate:
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