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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the police search the Klemperers' home in November, what besides books is taken?
(a) Eva's jewelry.
(b) Victor's saber, which he carried in World War I.
(c) Victor's musket, which he carried in World War I.
(d) Victor's automobile.

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

3. What city does Gusti Weighardt write the Klemperers she is moving to?
(a) Edinburgh.
(b) Amsterdam.
(c) Dublin.
(d) London.

4. Which local German official begins a program of harassment against the Jews that results in fines levied against the Klemperers for things such as weeds in their yard?
(a) The sheriff.
(b) The city manager.
(c) The mayor.
(d) The police chief.

5. Although all of the Klemperers are suffering from ill health and depression in 1940, what specifically happens to Grete?
(a) She falls and breaks her arm, which is soon very badly infected.
(b) She becomes so depressed she stops talking altogether.
(c) She suffers a mental breakdown and has to be hospitalized.
(d) She switches from fits of hysteria and almost unconsiousness on a daily basis.

6. Why does Klemperer speculate and report rumor and innuendo instead of actual news?
(a) Jews aren't allowed to listen to the radio.
(b) Jews aren't allowed to read the newspapers.
(c) There is a nationwide news blackout.
(d) He doesn't trust the official news media.

7. What dominates much of Victor's diary entries for 1939?
(a) War with Russia.
(b) War with Poland.
(c) War with England.
(d) War with France.

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

9. In December 1940, what are Jews ordered to begin wearing?
(a) Yellow jackets.
(b) Yellow armbands.
(c) Yellow yarmulkes.
(d) Yellow shoes.

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

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

12. One of Victor's entries makes note of the establishment of which automaker's factory?
(a) Skoda.
(b) Opel.
(c) Volkswagen.
(d) General Motors.

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

14. In November 1939, an unsuccessful attempt is made to assassinate:
(a) Hitler.
(b) Himmler.
(c) Rommel.
(d) Göring.

15. In late 1937, Hjalmar Schacht retires as the minister of ____________.
(a) Economics.
(b) War.
(c) Health.
(d) Environment.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1937, on which book does Klemperer continue to work?

2. In 1938, Germany annexes __________ in a non-violent political victory known today as the Anschluss.

3. What is the purpose of the yellow sign that the government puts on Klemperer's fence corners?

4. In May, Victor and Eva take a five-day automobile vacation. Which city is their first stop?

5. Jewish bank accounts are _____________ and ready cash is seized.

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