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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what month of 1940 does Klemperer send his stamp collection and important papers to his friend Annemarie for safeguarding?
(a) December.
(b) April.
(c) May.
(d) March.

2. Which concentration camp does Victor report hearing rumors of?
(a) Buchenwald.
(b) Mauthausen.
(c) Auschwitz.
(d) Bergen-Belsen.

3. Why does Klemperer begin to send out job applications to other countries?
(a) He does not feel particularly German anymore.
(b) He does not feel particularly Jewish anymore.
(c) He has realized that Nazism is not going away anytime soon.
(d) He wants to emigrate.

4. What other means of saving money does Victor consider but ultimately discard as unworkable?
(a) Stopping drinking.
(b) Stopping smoking.
(c) Cancelling his newspaper subscription.
(d) Giving up coffee.

5. In his entries of 1939, Victor Klemperer spends some time pondering the relationship between Jews and:
(a) The historic German nation.
(b) Other European nations.
(c) Protestants.
(d) The Vatican.

6. Jews face much stricter rationing than ___________.
(a) Catholics.
(b) Aryans.
(c) All other Europeans.
(d) Any other race.

7. What does Victor begin doing with his personal items?
(a) Selling them in yard sales.
(b) Packing them in preparation for the move.
(c) Selling them to pawnbrokers.
(d) Giving them away.

8. How large is the apartment the Klemperers secure in the Dresden ghetto?
(a) Three rooms.
(b) Two stories.
(c) Two rooms.
(d) One room.

9. In 1939, what is issued to the Jews?
(a) Rationing cards.
(b) Special 'Jew' armbands.
(c) Special 'Jew' identity cards.
(d) The dates on which they must move to the nearest ghetto.

10. By what name is the November 1938 pogrom conducted by the Nazis commonly referred to?
(a) The Shoah.
(b) Kristallnacht.
(c) The Catastrophe.
(d) The Night of the Long Knives.

11. Which of the following countries is NOT one of those the Nazis first occupy in 1940?
(a) Poland.
(b) Denmark.
(c) Norway.
(d) Belgium.

12. Credible rumors circulate that Jews in occupied __________ are treated very severely.
(a) Holland.
(b) Czechoslovakia.
(c) Poland.
(d) Yugoslavia.

13. What U.S. town does Betty emigrate to?
(a) Greenville.
(b) Newtonville.
(c) Cleveland.
(d) Toledo.

14. When Hitler visits Italy in 1938, it becomes evident that he is Mussolini's ____________.
(a) Rival.
(b) Ally.
(c) Master.
(d) Enemy.

15. What does nearly every Jew remaining in Germany, including the Klemperers, try to do in response to the rumors of ghettos?
(a) Emigrate.
(b) Hide in neighbors' attics and basements.
(c) Join the resistance.
(d) Kill themselves.

Short Answer Questions

1. By 1940, war _________ commonplace.

2. What dominates much of Victor's diary entries for 1939?

3. Which group does Klemperer say is the object of virulent Nazi messages in 1937?

4. Who accompanies the Klemperers to Berlin?

5. When the Klemperers take their second eight-day automobile vacation later in 1937 where do they go?

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