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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose fascist regime does Nazi Germany begin to support in 1937?
(a) Mussolini.
(b) Vichy.
(c) Franco.
(d) Tito.

2. In December 1940, what are Jews ordered to begin wearing?
(a) Yellow jackets.
(b) Yellow armbands.
(c) Yellow shoes.
(d) Yellow yarmulkes.

3. What makes food and commercial items increasingly difficult to obtain as 1939 progresses?
(a) The Swedish embargo.
(b) The English blockade.
(c) The American blockade.
(d) The Russian embargo.

4. Which tragedy does Klemperer believe reflects poorly on Hitler's government?
(a) The sinking of the Bismarck.
(b) The natural gas explosion in New London, Texas.
(c) The Black Famine.
(d) The crashing of the Hindenburg.

5. What does Klemperer do with the papers he does not send for safekeeping?
(a) Shreds them.
(b) Burns them.
(c) Takes them with him to the ghetto.
(d) Buries them.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Klemperer applies to the American Consulate in Berlin, what number is he given when he is assigned to the immigrant waiting list?

3. What dominates much of Victor's diary entries for 1939?

4. Whom do the newspapers give the responsibility of breeding Nordic-blooded individuals to escape the taint of Jewry?

5. When the police search the Klemperers' home in November, what besides books is taken?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what month of 1940 does the Nazi party take control of the Klemperers' house and evict them?

2. As 1938 progresses, what form of resistance against the Nazis is occasionally reported?

3. What November 1938 event forced even those Jews who were most resolutely in denial (among them Klemperer) to finally come to terms with the genocidal hatred of Hitler?

4. What brings Klemperer to believe that most Germans have always been, somewhat, anti-Semitic.

5. As Klemperer fights a daily battle with fear, what is one of the frequent thoughts that he says run through his head?

6. In October 1938, Klemperer falls ill and makes a trip to Berlin. Why does he make this trip, and why is it dangerous?

7. After making inquiries into emigration during 1939, what does Klemperer conclude about his efforts to leave Germany?

8. When the Nazis renovate or make improvements the property they seized from Victor Klemperer, to whom do they send the bill?

9. Why does the Nazi regime imposes a 'billion-Mark' fine on Jewish citizens in 1938?

10. Klemperer spends time during 1939 considering the relationship between Jews and the historic German nation. What is his conclusion?

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