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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through '1935'.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do family members and friends among the groups who are discriminated against by the Nazis begin to lose track of each other?
(a) Writing letters becomes forbidden.
(b) Writing letters and making telephone calls becomes politically dangerous.
(c) Writing letters and making telephone calls becomes forbidden.
(d) Making telephone calls becomes too expensive.

2. What does Klemperer report about his wife, Eva's, health?
(a) She is infirm and sickly on a nearly daily basis.
(b) She is confined to a wheelchair.
(c) She is very healthy and never gets sick.
(d) She is generally healthy but occasionally falls ill.

3. Klemperer mistakenly believes the Night of the Long Knives demonstrates what?
(a) The essential weakness of Hitler's government.
(b) His theory of German character is incorrect.
(c) The essential strength of Hitler's government.
(d) The extent of Hitler's paranoia.

4. What type of marriages are prohibited?
(a) Anything other than civil marriages.
(b) International.
(c) Inter-faith.
(d) Inter-racial.

5. What does Klemperer begin to question as 1933 progresses?
(a) His theory of national characteristics.
(b) His ability to remain in Germany.
(c) His ability to keep his job.
(d) His ability to be considered a Protestant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did groups against whom the Nazis discriminated, if they had wealth or internationally desirable skills, do?

2. What was the response to the Nazi party's rise to power, coupled with the poor economic climate of the times?

3. To what organization, if any, did the people killed during the Night of the Long Knives belong?

4. When was Eva born?

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

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