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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through '1940'.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. ___________ worries consume Klemperer in nearly every diary entry of 1936.
(a) Persecution.
(b) Health.
(c) Political.
(d) Financial.

2. What does Klemperer risk for avoiding giving the Nazi salute during class?
(a) Torture.
(b) Loss of employment.
(c) Death.
(d) Imprisonment.

3. What does Klemperer's book LTI deal with?
(a) Nazi hierarchy.
(b) Nazi officials.
(c) Nazi terminology.
(d) Nazi beliefs.

4. Toward the end of 1935, ______________ of food and various other materials become common.
(a) Shortages.
(b) Complete unavailability.
(c) Surpluses.
(d) Rationing.

5. In addition to Jews and Catholics, what group of people comes under discrimination in 1938?
(a) Ministers.
(b) Methodists.
(c) Lutherans.
(d) Missionaries.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes Klemperer break off all contact with the Wieghardts?

2. For what reason was Klemperer discharged from the army?

3. In 1935, which religious group begins experiencing persecution, including lengthy prison terms?

4. Although all of the Klemperers are suffering from ill health and depression in 1940, what specifically happens to Grete?

5. In his entries of 1939, Victor Klemperer spends some time pondering the relationship between Jews and:

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