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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was the name of the 1935 law that deprived German Jews of their citizenship and rights?
2. Before his discharge from the army, where did Klemperer serve?
3. ___________ worries consume Klemperer in nearly every diary entry of 1936.
4. As the Nazification of Germany continues in 1935, what is altered to the ancient German names?
5. What is the political orientation of the few newspapers that publish 'real' news?
Short Essay Questions
1. Klemperer ends his friendship with Gusti and Karl Weighardt because they criticized his driving skills to others. What is ironic about this decision?
2. As a university professor, what relationship does Klemperer notice developing between Nazi politics and ideology?
3. Klemperer is amazed that many Jews accept the Nazis. What does he say that Jews' overall belief is regarding what life will be like once the Nazis' anti-Semitic program is fully established?
4. In 1933, how does Klemperer find the German political situation?
5. As 1933 progresses, on what level and how frequently are Jewish-supplied goods and services boycotted?
6. During World War I, where did Victor Klemperer serve during combat?
7. Why did the Klemperers purchase an empty lot in the Dresden suburb of Dölzschen with the intent of building a house?
8. What is Victor Klemperer's theory of German national characteristics?
9. Toward the end of the year, as the Abyssinian War breaks out in Italy and Jehovah's Witnesses begin being persecuted, Klemperer wonders how long the Hitler government can last. What is the conclusion he comes to?
10. When Klemperer receives his driving permit in January 1936, what emotions does he experience?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Choose any three of the discriminatory actions legalized by the passage of the Nuremberg Laws of Citizenship and Race and write an essay that analyzes and explains the effect each of the actions that you chose. Explain the effects upon the Jews as well as on non-Jews and the Nazi Party. Use the book to support your statements.
Essay Topic 2
Analyze and explain why the conquest of Poland in 1939 caused Klemperer to lose all hope of a rapid German defeat. Use the text to back up your statements.
Essay Topic 3
Analyze and explain whether Eva's long illness--as well as Grete's mental breakdown--during 1940 could have been a result of the stress and anxiety of living under the control of the Nazis.
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