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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 telegraph.
(d) A typewriter.

2. In what month does Klemperer receive a planned termination notice?
(a) May.
(b) August.
(c) February.
(d) April.

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

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

5. What has happened to Klemperer's theory of the essential character of the German nation?
(a) He is seriously doubting it.
(b) He has nearly abandoned it.
(c) He is holding tighter to it than ever.
(d) He has entirely abandoned it.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much of the retirement pay that they had worked for do Catholics, Communists, and Jews who lose their jobs get?

2. What other means of saving money does Victor consider but ultimately discard as unworkable?

3. 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?

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

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?

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