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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the friend Anja “always ran to see” even after she and Vladek were married?
(a) A communist from Warsaw.
(b) An old boyfriend from home.
(c) A cousin from Berlin.
(d) A childhood friend.

2. Why does Artie say, in Chpater 1, that he wants to gather this information about Anja?
(a) He says that he won’t know the story until he hears it.
(b) He says that he wants to tell a personal story, not a story about the Holocaust.
(c) He says that it makes his father’s story more human.
(d) He says that he wants to know his father better.

3. What complication was there when Art Spiegelman was born?
(a) He was almost strangulated by the umbilical cord.
(b) He was a breach birth.
(c) He was premature.
(d) He was sickly.

4. What does Vladek say was Anja’s response to his strong reaction to someone getting arrested due to the work she was doing for her friend during the war?
(a) He says that she moved to her parents’ house.
(b) He says that she insisted on helping the resistance.
(c) He says that she agreed to stop seeing the Communist.
(d) He says that she continued to help the Communists without his knowledge.

5. Where does Artie's father live, in the beginning of the memoir?
(a) Los Angeles, CA.
(b) Warsaw, Poland.
(c) Berlin, Germany.
(d) Rego Park, NY.

6. Where did Artie's father meet Anja?
(a) In a park.
(b) At the factory where he worked.
(c) During a visit to his family.
(d) In a library.

7. What territory is Vladek’s home in, after the division of Poland?
(a) The Russian section.
(b) Prussia.
(c) The Reich.
(d) The Protectorate.

8. What does Vladek dream will happen at Parshas Truma?
(a) He will be killed.
(b) He will be released.
(c) He will get word to his family.
(d) His condition in the camp will improve.

9. How did Vladek end up in the army after all?
(a) They lowered the requirements so that he was now healthy enough to be inducted.
(b) He was deemed healthy in spite of having starved himself down again.
(c) He was drafted.
(d) He refused to go on the starvation diet the second time.

10. While in the POW camp, what were the conditions under which Vladek could write home?
(a) He had to praise the Germans.
(b) He could not tell the truth of his condition.
(c) He had to write in German.
(d) He had to write in code.

11. What is Vladek and Anja’s reaction to Vladek being drafted?
(a) Vladek is taken away, and Anja runs the factory.
(b) Vladek reports, and Anja goes to live with a neighbor.
(c) Vladek reports, and Anja returns to her parents’.
(d) Vladek and Anja pack and leave for America.

12. What does Artie's father chide him with, while he is telling Artie stories?
(a) Dropping cigarette ash on the carpet.
(b) Not asking enough questions
(c) Not having experienced anything like the Holocaust.
(d) Listening so passively.

13. What is the age difference between Artie's father and Anja?
(a) Four years.
(b) Six years.
(c) One year.
(d) They are the same age.

14. Where does Vladek says that he saw the swastika for the first time?
(a) Belgium.
(b) Czechoslovakia.
(c) Germany.
(d) Poland.

15. What does Vladek say was his reaction to someone getting arrested because of the work Anja did for her friend during the war time?
(a) He was ready to break off his marriage.
(b) He wanted to participate in the conspiracies.
(c) He wanted to go to America.
(d) He wanted Anja to repair the damage she’d done.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Vladek’s father try to keep him out of the army?

2. How does Vladek characterize his attitude about being in the army?

3. How does Artie’s father describe Anja’s relationships before marriage?

4. What task is Vladek assigned to after being captured in the war?

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

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