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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Throughout 1934, many Jews _________ Palestine.
(a) Support annexation of.
(b) Emigrate to.
(c) Establish diplomatic ties to.
(d) Become disenchanted with.

2. Which group of people were not discharged from employment during 1933?
(a) Catholics.
(b) Jews.
(c) Communists.
(d) Lutherans.

3. What does Klemperer risk for avoiding giving the Nazi salute during class?
(a) Torture.
(b) Death.
(c) Imprisonment.
(d) Loss of employment.

4. Klemperer's wife, Eva, is _____________.
(a) Catholic and Aryan.
(b) Jewish and Semitic.
(c) Non-Jewish and Aryan.
(d) Protestant and black.

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

6. When school resumes in November, what happens to Klemperer's career?
(a) He receives a promotion.
(b) He returns to the lecture circuit.
(c) He receives a termination notice.
(d) He retires.

7. What does Klemperer report about his wife, Eva's, health?
(a) She is very healthy and never gets sick.
(b) She is generally healthy but occasionally falls ill.
(c) She is infirm and sickly on a nearly daily basis.
(d) She is confined to a wheelchair.

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

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

10. Which war begins in August 1936?
(a) The French Revolution.
(b) The Crimean War.
(c) World War II.
(d) The Spanish Civil War.

11. To which location does Georg Klemperer first emigrate after the Nazis strip Jews of their citizenship and rights?
(a) Rome.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) London.
(d) Paris.

12. To what organization, if any, did the people killed during the Night of the Long Knives belong?
(a) None.
(b) Sturmabteilung.
(c) Luftwaffe.
(d) Gestapo.

13. Both Victor and Eva appear to be _____________ much of the time in the entries written in 1936.
(a) Angry.
(b) Depressed.
(c) Anxious.
(d) Fearful.

14. Why does Klemperer receive a reduced-rate retirement payment?
(a) He is a veteran of World War I.
(b) He is a veteran of World War I and is married to an Aryan woman.
(c) He is a convert to Christianity.
(d) He is a veteran of World War I and is a convert to Christianity.

15. The mass _____________ of Jews has had the effect of separating friends and relatives.
(a) Persecution.
(b) Emigration.
(c) Execution.
(d) Ridicule.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Klemperer begin to question as 1933 progresses?

2. What about many Jews' attitude towards the Nazis amazes Klemperer?

3. What piece of office equipment does Victor learn to use in 1935?

4. When was Victor born?

5. In what month does Klemperer receive a planned termination notice?

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