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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the truth about the voluntary Nazi political-fund drives?
(a) They are a de facto mandatory tax.
(b) They are a de facto party membership fee.
(c) Jews' participation is mandatory; Aryans' participation is voluntary.
(d) They are indeed voluntary.

2. As of 1936, for how long has Klemperer been unemployed?
(a) One year.
(b) Three years.
(c) Three months.
(d) One month.

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

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

5. 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.

6. What puts Palestine beyond the reach of many?
(a) It requires immigrants to demonstrate considerable financial net worth.
(b) It does not accept European Jews.
(c) It requires immigrants to convert to Islam.
(d) It requires immigrants to financially destitute themselves in order to apply for residence.

7. What race was Helene Meyer, who won the silver medal in fencing for Germany?
(a) Slavic.
(b) Aryan.
(c) Jewish.
(d) Black.

8. How does Victor Klemperer respond to his brother's advice after considering it?
(a) He declines to emigrate.
(b) He decides to emigrate if the Nazis are still in control in 1936.
(c) He can't make up his mind; he is paralyzed by fear.
(d) He emigrates immediately.

9. When was Victor born?
(a) July 13, 1881.
(b) July 13, 1882.
(c) October 9, 1882.
(d) October 9, 1881.

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

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

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

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

14. In what month does Klemperer receive his driving permit?
(a) March.
(b) June.
(c) July.
(d) January.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following countries is NOT one of the destinations favored by Jews emigrating from Germany in 1934?

2. How much of the retirement pay that they had worked for do Catholics, Communists, and Jews who lose their jobs get?

3. In what German city is the Klemperers' apartment located?

4. What happens to Klemperer's position after he leaves it?

5. During which war did Klemperer serve in the German armed forces?

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