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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What piece of office equipment does Victor learn to use in 1935?
(a) A transcription machine.
(b) A mimeograph machine.
(c) A typewriter.
(d) A telegraph.

2. How much of the retirement pay that they had worked for do Catholics, Communists, and Jews who lose their jobs get?
(a) Half retirement pay.
(b) Full retirement pay.
(c) One-third retirement pay.
(d) None.

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

4. In what month of 1939 are the Klemperers notified that, beginning April 1940, their house will be rented to an Aryan?
(a) September.
(b) November.
(c) April.
(d) December.

5. In 1935, most of the construction on the new house is complete. In what area of the house does Eva spend most of her time working?
(a) The living room.
(b) The kitchen.
(c) The study.
(d) The garden.

Short Answer Questions

1. What U.S. town does Georg emigrate to?

2. What type of marriages are prohibited?

3. Why does Klemperer speculate and report rumor and innuendo instead of actual news?

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

5. While in Berlin, Klemperer learns that anti-government elements frequently copy thousands of subversive or censored handbills _______________ and distribute them secretly.

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