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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Klemperer applies to the American Consulate in Berlin, what number is he given when he is assigned to the immigrant waiting list?
(a) 52.469.
(b) 56,249.
(c) 56,429.
(d) 52,649.

2. In May, Klemperer also refers to the sinking of two ships. What were their names?
(a) The Hood and the Bismarck.
(b) The Hood and the Lusitania.
(c) The Bismarck and the Titanic.
(d) The Hood and the Enterprise.

3. Before his discharge from the army, where did Klemperer serve?
(a) In a hospital.
(b) Behind a desk.
(c) On the front lines.
(d) In a tank.

4. Most of the Jews in the ghetto consider an amphibious landing in England:
(a) A huge risk, but worth the attempt.
(b) The only way to end the war.
(c) Absolutely possible.
(d) Completely impossible.

5. In his entries of 1939, Victor Klemperer spends some time pondering the relationship between Jews and:
(a) Protestants.
(b) Other European nations.
(c) The Vatican.
(d) The historic German nation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Victor's sister, Grete, after she suffers a mental collapse and a heart attack?

2. Whose fascist regime does Nazi Germany begin to support in 1937?

3. What is the truth about the voluntary Nazi political-fund drives?

4. What city does Gusti Weighardt write the Klemperers she is moving to?

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

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