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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do family members and friends among the groups who are discriminated against by the Nazis begin to lose track of each other?
(a) Writing letters and making telephone calls becomes politically dangerous.
(b) Writing letters becomes forbidden.
(c) Writing letters and making telephone calls becomes forbidden.
(d) Making telephone calls becomes too expensive.

2. What happens to Klemperer's position after he leaves it?
(a) It remains open but is not filled.
(b) It is filled by a non-Jew.
(c) It is filled by another Jew.
(d) It is not filled.

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

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

5. In 1935, which religious group begins experiencing persecution, including lengthy prison terms?
(a) Seventh-Day Adventists.
(b) Catholics.
(c) Mormons.
(d) Jehovah's Witnesses.

6. In what month of 1934 do the Klemperers move into their home in Dölzschen?
(a) November.
(b) January.
(c) April.
(d) October.

7. What has happened to Klemperer's theory of the essential character of the German nation?
(a) He is holding tighter to it than ever.
(b) He has entirely abandoned it.
(c) He has nearly abandoned it.
(d) He is seriously doubting it.

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

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

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

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

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

13. In what German city is the Klemperers' apartment located?
(a) Nuremberg.
(b) Dresden.
(c) Dölzschen.
(d) Berlin.

14. Who was killed during the Night of the Long Knives?
(a) Jews.
(b) Gypsies.
(c) Former acquaintances and allies of Heidelberg.
(d) Former acquaintances and allies of Hitler.

15. How does the Nazi party come to power in January 1933?
(a) A workers' revolution.
(b) A military coup.
(c) A valid national election.
(d) A rigged national election.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what point during classes are professors expected to give the Nazi salute?

2. What kind of car does Klemperer buy after receiving his driving permit?

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

4. 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?

5. In February, what accident are the Klemperers witness to?

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