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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What saves Vladek from a beating at the hands of a German guard while in Srodula?
(a) The arrival of a crowd of Jews.
(b) The arrival of the guard’s ranking officer.
(c) His connection with Haskel Spiegelman.
(d) His ability to bribe the officer.

2. Who ultimately takes Richieu away from the ghetto?
(a) Vladek’s father.
(b) Persis.
(c) The Germans.
(d) Freedom fighters.

3. What effect does Vladek’s story about his father rescuing the pillow in 1914 have on Anja?
(a) It lifts her spirits.
(b) It reminds her why they must carry on.
(c) It reassures her.
(d) It convinces her that she can trust him.

4. What plans do Anja’s family and Vladek make after the birth of Vladek and Anja’s first son?
(a) Vladek and Anja go to a sanitarium in Czechoslovakia.
(b) Vladek and Anja move to Sosnowiec together to start their family.
(c) Vladek moves to Sosnowiec to wait for Anja.
(d) Vladek and Anja split up temporarily.

5. Who did the Germans round up in the spring of 1944?
(a) The old people.
(b) The women.
(c) The working-age men.
(d) The children.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who gets arrested because of the work Anja does for her friend?

3. What does Vladek dream will happen at Parshas Truma?

4. Where does Artie's father live, in the beginning of the memoir?

5. In Chapter 1, why does Vladek stop hearing from Anja?

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