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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through '1941'.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Gusti Weighardt's son, Karl, visits the Klemperers in May 1941, how does Victor describe him?
(a) Jewish, distant, and fearful.
(b) Aryan, distant and argumentative.
(c) Aryan, warm, and supportive.
(d) Aryan, argumentative, and a rabid Nazi.

2. In May 1941, Klemperer refers to the Sonnenstein crematorium. What type of people were sent to Sonnenstein?
(a) Prisoners of war and mentally ill Jews.
(b) Traitors and other political prisoners.
(c) Mentally ill Jews and others.
(d) Political prisoners and the disabled.

3. What did groups against whom the Nazis discriminated, if they had wealth or internationally desirable skills, do?
(a) Seek high interest home loans.
(b) Emigrate.
(c) Change their identities.
(d) Bribe the government to keep their positions.

4. With what type of inmates are prisons over-capacity?
(a) Non-violent.
(b) Criminal.
(c) White-collar.
(d) Political.

5. Eva and Victor are between what ages, respectively, during 1933?
(a) 52 and 61.
(b) 50 and 60.
(c) 61 and 52.
(d) 60 and 50.

Short Answer Questions

1. In November 1939, an unsuccessful attempt is made to assassinate:

2. In which city does Klemperer note that Jews are rumored to have been forcibly relocated to ghettos?

3. What U.S. town does Betty emigrate to?

4. With whom is Klemperer involved in a lawsuit during 1933 and 1934?

5. How does Victor Klemperer respond to his brother's advice after considering it?

(see the answer key)

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