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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. ___________ worries consume Klemperer in nearly every diary entry of 1936.
(a) Financial.
(b) Political.
(c) Persecution.
(d) Health.

4. Who writes the propagandistic articles carried by most media outlets?
(a) Hitler.
(b) Members of the former German government.
(c) The reporters who work for the media outlets.
(d) Nazi party officials.

5. What does Klemperer believe will defeat the Nazis' anti-Semitism?
(a) The Allies.
(b) The German national character.
(c) Christianity.
(d) Communism.

6. What health condition(s) do both Klemperers appear to have?
(a) Anxiety and diabetes.
(b) Malnourishment.
(c) Hypertension.
(d) Depression and hypochondria.

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

8. 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 German history.
(d) It is a review of eighteenth-century politics.

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

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

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

12. As anti-Jew laws become stricter, what is an example of the type of public facilities from which Jews are excluded in 1936?
(a) Police offices.
(b) Restaurants.
(c) Grocery stores.
(d) Public reading rooms.

13. Klemperer mistakenly believes the Night of the Long Knives demonstrates what?
(a) The essential weakness of Hitler's government.
(b) His theory of German character is incorrect.
(c) The extent of Hitler's paranoia.
(d) The essential strength of Hitler's government.

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

15. The politicized and specialized language of ________________ continues to seep into common, everyday usage.
(a) Nazism.
(b) The Führer.
(c) The Third Reich.
(d) Marxism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. By the end of 1934, which area of Europe votes to attach itself to Germany?

3. What is one interesting example of Nazi indoctrination noted by Klemperer in his 1936 entries?

4. Throughout 1934, many Jews _________ Palestine.

5. When he becomes Chancellor of Germany, Hitler's ______________ rhetoric becomes central to national politics.

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