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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through '1938'.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the topic of Klemperer's book, The Eighteenth Century?
(a) it is a review of eighteenth-century German history.
(b) It is a review of eighteenth-century politics.
(c) It is a review of eighteenth-century art.
(d) It is a review of eighteenth-century literature.

2. Victor Klemperer, the diarist, is a ___________ who has converted to _________.
(a) Protestant; Judaism.
(b) Jew; Protestantism.
(c) Jew; Catholicism.
(d) Catholic; Judaism.

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?
(a) The police chief.
(b) The city manager.
(c) The mayor.
(d) The sheriff.

4. Why does Klemperer begin to send out job applications to other countries?
(a) He wants to emigrate.
(b) He has realized that Nazism is not going away anytime soon.
(c) He does not feel particularly German anymore.
(d) He does not feel particularly Jewish anymore.

5. For most of 1937, Klemperer finds himself believing that most Germans have always been somewhat ____________.
(a) Isolationist.
(b) Pan-European.
(c) Nationalistic.
(d) Anti-Semitic.

Short Answer Questions

1. In May, Victor and Eva take a five-day automobile vacation. Which city is their first stop?

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

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

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

5. The mass _____________ of Jews has had the effect of separating friends and relatives.

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