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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Anja’s family mend fences after the arrest she caused due to her work with her friend?
(a) They pay the seamstress a good amount of money.
(b) They get involved in the resistance.
(c) They pay to send Anja’s friend to America.
(d) They turn Anja’s friend in to the police.

2. How does Artie's father surprise Anja on their first date?
(a) By knowing her friends from school.
(b) By knowing her parents and family.
(c) By understanding her when she speaks in English.
(d) By knowing many details about her.

3. Why does Vladek say his position as a Jew in Poland is less secure than his position as a prisoner of war?
(a) POWs are regulated by war conventions; Jews can be killed with impunity.
(b) As a POW, at least there was food.
(c) As a Jew in Poland, he has to compete with other Jews for all his food and needs.
(d) At home with Anja and his family, he is vulnerable on their behalf as well.

4. When were Vladek and Anja married?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1936.

5. Why do the Germans leave Vladek’s mother-in-law’s nice bedroom set alone when they come to plunder the household?
(a) Vladek’s father-in-law bribes them.
(b) Vladek’s family hides the bedroom set.
(c) Vladek’s father-in-law keeps the soldiers from seeing that bedroom.
(d) They do not take it because she is ill.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Anja’s teacher tell Artie's father tell about Anja?

2. What does Artie resent in “Prisoner on the Hell Planet”?

3. What were Anja’s last words to Artie?

4. How do Vladek’s in-laws distract themselves from the war?

5. What are Vladek’s accommodations in the POW camp?

(see the answer key)

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