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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the 1935 law that deprived German Jews of their citizenship and rights?
(a) The Reich Laws of Citizenship and Race.
(b) The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor.
(c) The Reich Citizenship Law.
(d) The Nuremberg Laws of Citizenship and Race.

2. How does Klemperer come up with the money to pay for the initial rounds of construction on his house?
(a) He closes out a savings account.
(b) He comes into an inheritance.
(c) His brother Georg makes him a financial gift.
(d) He secures a house loan.

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

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

5. What is the purpose of the offices of "science" that the Nazi government establishes?
(a) To develop an atomic weapon.
(b) To explain racial inferiority as a natural law.
(c) To develop better propaganda and indoctrination methods.
(d) To help Germans better achieve economic domination.

Short Answer Questions

1. For most of 1937, Klemperer finds himself believing that most Germans have always been somewhat ____________.

2. What illness does Victor contract during 1935?

3. What word does Klemperer use for the first time (on April 9, 1939) to describe the German-Italian alliance?

4. With what type of inmates are prisons over-capacity?

5. By the end of 1940, clothing has become so scarce that:

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