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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word does Klemperer use for the first time (on April 9, 1939) to describe the German-Italian alliance?
(a) Prusso-Italian Coalition.
(b) Italo-Prussian Alliance.
(c) Allies.
(d) Axis.

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

3. Who accompanies the Klemperers to Berlin?
(a) Gusti.
(b) Georg.
(c) Grete.
(d) Betty.

4. What illness does Victor contract during 1935?
(a) Polio.
(b) Dysentery.
(c) Influenza.
(d) Measles.

5. What happens to the books that the university library has to surrender to the authorities when said books are deemed to have failed censorship or not be fit for the average person?
(a) They are destroyed and the university receives no compensation.
(b) They are destroyed and the authors are arrested for treason.
(c) They are heavily censored and then returned to the university.
(d) They are heavily censored and the authors are forced into Nazi re-education classes.

Short Answer Questions

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

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. As the Nazification of Germany continues in 1935, what is altered to the ancient German names?

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

5. In late 1937, Hjalmar Schacht retires as the minister of ____________.

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