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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Before his discharge from the army, where did Klemperer serve?
(a) Behind a desk.
(b) In a hospital.
(c) In a tank.
(d) On the front lines.

2. What kind of car does Klemperer buy after receiving his driving permit?
(a) A 1936 Volkswagen.
(b) A 1932 Opel.
(c) A 1934 Volvo.
(d) A 1932 Ford.

3. ___________ worries consume Klemperer in nearly every diary entry of 1936.
(a) Health.
(b) Financial.
(c) Persecution.
(d) Political.

4. For what reason was Klemperer discharged from the army?
(a) He was discharged because his enlistment period had expired.
(b) He was dishonorably discharged.
(c) He deserted.
(d) He was discharged for medical reasons.

5. Who writes the propagandistic articles carried by most media outlets?
(a) Nazi party officials.
(b) Hitler.
(c) The reporters who work for the media outlets.
(d) Members of the former German government.

6. With which political ideology is the Klemperers' friend, Gusti Wieghardt, enamored?
(a) Nazism.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Parliamentarianism.
(d) Communism.

7. By the end of 1934, which area of Europe votes to attach itself to Germany?
(a) The Transvaal region.
(b) The Saar region.
(c) Austria.
(d) Czechoslovakia.

8. What does Klemperer teach at the university where he works?
(a) Philology and history.
(b) Romance literature and political science.
(c) Philology and romance literature.
(d) History and Renaissance literature.

9. What is one interesting example of Nazi indoctrination noted by Klemperer in his 1936 entries?
(a) Mein Kampf replacing Bibles in churches and synagogues.
(b) Propagandistic slogans used as postmarks.
(c) Propagandistic slogans used as fortunes in fortune cookies.
(d) The production of coloring books that indoctrinate children.

10. Klemperer's wife, Eva, is _____________.
(a) Non-Jewish and Aryan.
(b) Catholic and Aryan.
(c) Protestant and black.
(d) Jewish and Semitic.

11. In February, what accident are the Klemperers witness to?
(a) The collapse of a billboard.
(b) The collapse of a construction trench.
(c) A multiple-car collision.
(d) The sinking of a passenger ferry.

12. To what organization, if any, did the people killed during the Night of the Long Knives belong?
(a) Luftwaffe.
(b) Gestapo.
(c) None.
(d) Sturmabteilung.

13. During which war did Klemperer serve in the German armed forces?
(a) Franco-Prussian War.
(b) World War II.
(c) World War I.
(d) The German Revolution.

14. How does the Nazi party come to power in January 1933?
(a) A workers' revolution.
(b) A rigged national election.
(c) A valid national election.
(d) A military coup.

15. The government uses various ________ methods to harass Jews and other so-called undesirables.
(a) Political.
(b) Subtle.
(c) Obvious.
(d) Social.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what month of 1934 do the Klemperers move into their home in Dölzschen?

2. When Paul von Hindenburg dies in August 1934, which office does Hitler assume in addition to that of Chancellor?

3. Toward the end of 1935, ______________ of food and various other materials become common.

4. In which town have the Klemperers purchased an empty lot?

5. In what German city is the Klemperers' apartment located?

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