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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Victor's sister, Grete, after she suffers a mental collapse and a heart attack?
(a) She is sent to the hospital.
(b) She is placed in a nursing home.
(c) She is sent to Buchenwald and put to death.
(d) She is placed in a sanatorium.

2. In 1938, _____________ is partitioned and Germany claims a huge part of the country.
(a) Yugoslavia.
(b) Greece.
(c) Czechoslovakia.
(d) Austria.

3. What U.S. town does Georg emigrate to?
(a) Newtonville.
(b) New Philadelphia.
(c) Greenville.
(d) Newville.

4. Where are the Klemperers told they will have to live after their house is rented?
(a) Their old apartment in Dresden.
(b) The Berlin ghetto.
(c) The Dresden ghetto.
(d) The Dölzchen ghetto.

5. Whose fascist regime does Nazi Germany begin to support in 1937?
(a) Vichy.
(b) Franco.
(c) Mussolini.
(d) Tito.

6. What does Klemperer call the building in which their apartment is located?
(a) The Dresden Dump.
(b) The Jews' House.
(c) The Hitler House.
(d) The Ghetto.

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

8. During 1940, so-called mixed-race Jews, who were previously allowed in the military, are:
(a) Sent to the concentration camps.
(b) Excluded and treated as Jews.
(c) Granted amnesty and given non-Jewish surnames.
(d) Sent to the ghettos.

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

10. Some bombings are particularly devastating to Berlin and:
(a) Strausberg.
(b) Hamburg.
(c) Bonn.
(d) Nuremberg.

11. Bombings occur in the West, then in Berlin, and then occasionally in:
(a) Dusseldorf.
(b) Munich.
(c) Dresden.
(d) Heidelburg.

12. What is the purpose of the offices of "science" that the Nazi government establishes?
(a) To develop better propaganda and indoctrination methods.
(b) To help Germans better achieve economic domination.
(c) To develop an atomic weapon.
(d) To explain racial inferiority as a natural law.

13. When the Klemperers take their second eight-day automobile vacation later in 1937 where do they go?
(a) The Aegean.
(b) The Baltic Sea.
(c) The North Sea.
(d) The Mediterranean.

14. The Nazis call the invasion of which country off?
(a) Spain.
(b) Poland.
(c) England.
(d) The United States.

15. By the end of 1940, clothing has become so scarce that:
(a) The ill are stripped before admission to the hospital.
(b) People are dying from exposure due to lack of proper clothes.
(c) People are dressing in flour sacks.
(d) The recently deceased are stripped before being cremated.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Hitler visits Italy in 1938, it becomes evident that he is Mussolini's ____________.

2. Which tragedy does Klemperer believe reflects poorly on Hitler's government?

3. What does Klemperer do with the papers he does not send for safekeeping?

4. Why does Klemperer begin to send out job applications to other countries?

5. How do the Klemperers mitigate maintenance costs?

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