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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In 1939, what is issued to the Jews?
(a) Rationing cards.
(b) Special 'Jew' armbands.
(c) The dates on which they must move to the nearest ghetto.
(d) Special 'Jew' identity cards.

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

5. Which of the following countries is NOT one of the destinations favored by Jews emigrating from Germany in 1934?
(a) Palestine.
(b) The United States.
(c) The Soviet Union.
(d) Poland.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what organization, if any, did the people killed during the Night of the Long Knives belong?

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

3. When the police search the Klemperers' home in November, what besides books is taken?

4. With which political ideology is the Klemperers' friend, Gusti Wieghardt, enamored?

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

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