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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What makes food and commercial items increasingly difficult to obtain as 1939 progresses?
(a) The Swedish embargo.
(b) The English blockade.
(c) The Russian embargo.
(d) The American blockade.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following countries is NOT one of those the Nazis first occupy in 1940?

2. Whom do the newspapers give the responsibility of breeding Nordic-blooded individuals to escape the taint of Jewry?

3. While in Berlin, Klemperer learns that anti-government elements frequently copy thousands of subversive or censored handbills _______________ and distribute them secretly.

4. What happens to Victor's sister, Grete, after she suffers a mental collapse and a heart attack?

5. When Klemperer applies to the American Consulate in Berlin, what number is he given when he is assigned to the immigrant waiting list?

Short Essay Questions

1. When the Nazis renovate or make improvements the property they seized from Victor Klemperer, to whom do they send the bill?

2. In 1938, the Klemperers make a surprise visit to Grete on her birthday. During this visit, what or who do Grete and Victor reminisce about?

3. Klemperer spends time during 1939 considering the relationship between Jews and the historic German nation. What is his conclusion?

4. Why does the Nazi regime imposes a 'billion-Mark' fine on Jewish citizens in 1938?

5. After making inquiries into emigration during 1939, what does Klemperer conclude about his efforts to leave Germany?

6. Early in 1939, on what book does Klemperer begin to work in earnest?

7. As 1938 progresses, what form of resistance against the Nazis is occasionally reported?

8. In what month of 1940 does the Nazi party take control of the Klemperers' house and evict them?

9. As 1940 progresses, which continent becomes entirely involved in World War II?

10. What brings Klemperer to believe that most Germans have always been, somewhat, anti-Semitic.

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