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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much of the retirement pay that they had worked for do Catholics, Communists, and Jews who lose their jobs get?
(a) None.
(b) Full retirement pay.
(c) Half retirement pay.
(d) One-third retirement pay.

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

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

4. What is the political orientation of the few newspapers that publish 'real' news?
(a) Prime-Time.
(b) Moderate.
(c) Right.
(d) Left.

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

6. What opinion does Klemperer say most of his Aryan friends and associates have of the Nazis?
(a) They support them.
(b) They are undecided.
(c) They are against them.
(d) They are neutral.

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

8. Along with his strongest recommendations to flee Germany, what does Georg give Victor and Eva Klemperer?
(a) Secret information about what Hitler has planned next for the Jews.
(b) Tickets on the next flight out of Germany.
(c) A considerable sum of money.
(d) A year's supply of medicine.

9. From what does Klemperer's youngest sister, Wally Sussman, die?
(a) Old age.
(b) Cancer.
(c) A heart attack.
(d) A stroke.

10. What work is done on the Klemperers' empty lot through the end of 1933?
(a) A cellar is excavated.
(b) A fence is built.
(c) A fence is built and a cellar is excavated.
(d) A vineyard is planted.

11. 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.

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

13. What does Klemperer teach at the university where he works?
(a) History and Renaissance literature.
(b) Romance literature and political science.
(c) Philology and romance literature.
(d) Philology and history.

14. What illness does Victor contract during 1935?
(a) Polio.
(b) Measles.
(c) Influenza.
(d) Dysentery.

15. With which political ideology is the Klemperers' friend, Gusti Wieghardt, enamored?
(a) Nazism.
(b) Parliamentarianism.
(c) Communism.
(d) Democracy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens to the books that the university library has to surrender to the authorities when said books are deemed to have failed censorship or not be fit for the average person?

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

4. In which town have the Klemperers purchased an empty lot?

5. What does Klemperer believe will defeat the Nazis' anti-Semitism?

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