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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 better propaganda and indoctrination methods.
(b) To explain racial inferiority as a natural law.
(c) To help Germans better achieve economic domination.
(d) To develop an atomic weapon.

2. In late 1937, Hjalmar Schacht retires as the minister of ____________.
(a) War.
(b) Economics.
(c) Environment.
(d) Health.

3. What city does Gusti Weighardt write the Klemperers she is moving to?
(a) London.
(b) Edinburgh.
(c) Dublin.
(d) Amsterdam.

4. What U.S. town does Betty emigrate to?
(a) Toledo.
(b) Newtonville.
(c) Cleveland.
(d) Greenville.

5. What happens to Victor's sister, Grete, after she suffers a mental collapse and a heart attack?
(a) She is sent to the hospital.
(b) She is placed in a sanatorium.
(c) She is sent to Buchenwald and put to death.
(d) She is placed in a nursing home.

6. Where are the Klemperers told they will have to live after their house is rented?
(a) Their old apartment in Dresden.
(b) The Dölzchen ghetto.
(c) The Berlin ghetto.
(d) The Dresden ghetto.

7. In 1939, what is issued to the Jews?
(a) Special 'Jew' armbands.
(b) The dates on which they must move to the nearest ghetto.
(c) Special 'Jew' identity cards.
(d) Rationing cards.

8. While in Berlin, Klemperer learns that anti-government elements frequently copy thousands of subversive or censored handbills _______________ and distribute them secretly.
(a) By hand.
(b) On underground printing presses.
(c) At printing companies in neutral countries.
(d) In the United States.

9. When the Klemperers take their second eight-day automobile vacation later in 1937 where do they go?
(a) The Baltic Sea.
(b) The Mediterranean.
(c) The Aegean.
(d) The North Sea.

10. 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?
(a) The mayor.
(b) The police chief.
(c) The sheriff.
(d) The city manager.

11. When Hitler visits Italy in 1938, it becomes evident that he is Mussolini's ____________.
(a) Rival.
(b) Ally.
(c) Master.
(d) Enemy.

12. Which two countries enter the war in 1939, along with Poland?
(a) France and Italy.
(b) Italy and Switzerland.
(c) Albania and Turkey.
(d) England and France.

13. In the middle of 1938, Jews are required to make their name 'Jewish' for easy identification. What does Victor begin calling himself in order to comply with this requirement?
(a) Victor-Israel.
(b) Israel-Victor.
(c) Victor-Jude.
(d) Jude-Victor.

14. In 1938, _____________ is partitioned and Germany claims a huge part of the country.
(a) Yugoslavia.
(b) Austria.
(c) Greece.
(d) Czechoslovakia.

15. Most of the Jews in the ghetto consider an amphibious landing in England:
(a) The only way to end the war.
(b) Completely impossible.
(c) A huge risk, but worth the attempt.
(d) Absolutely possible.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who accompanies the Klemperers to Berlin?

2. During 1940, so-called mixed-race Jews, who were previously allowed in the military, are:

3. In what month of 1939 are the Klemperers notified that, beginning April 1940, their house will be rented to an Aryan?

4. By 1940, war _________ commonplace.

5. Which concentration camp does Victor report hearing rumors of?

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