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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 1, why does Vladek stop hearing from Anja?
(a) She got a letter from Lucia.
(b) She wanted to play hard to get.
(c) She fell ill.
(d) She had doubts about Vladek’s integrity.

2. How does Artie’s father characterize the situation for the Jews in Germany in 1937?
(a) He says that they were being persecuted.
(b) He says that it was not that bad yet.
(c) He says that they were being exiled.
(d) He says that they were already being systematically executed.

3. How does Vladek characterize his attitude about being in the army?
(a) He was opposed to violence in any form.
(b) He says that he didn’t want to shoot anyone, so he shot blindly.
(c) He was willing to kill Germans if it kept Poland free.
(d) He was anxious to prove himself a true Pole.

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

5. Who visits Vladek before he moves to Anja’s town?
(a) Lucia’s brother.
(b) Anja’s brother.
(c) Lucia.
(d) His father.

6. Whose story does Artie say, in Chapter 1, he wants to tell?
(a) His father’s.
(b) The Holocaust’s.
(c) His mother’s.
(d) His own.

7. Who does Anja’s friend get her in trouble with?
(a) The police.
(b) Vladek.
(c) Her friend.
(d) Her parents.

8. What does Vladek do when his eye doctor misdiagnoses him?
(a) He does not say anything.
(b) He reports the doctor to his superior.
(c) He yells at the doctor.
(d) He politely corrects the mistake.

9. What was the outcome for the person who was arrested due to Anja's work for her friend?
(a) He was beaten and then released.
(b) She remained in prison for three months but was let go.
(c) She died in prison.
(d) Her parents bailed her out.

10. How does Artie’s father characterize Anja’s relationship with Artie?
(a) He says that she was too selfish to care about anyone else.
(b) He says that she loved her son more than she loved her husband.
(c) He says that she was too strict about food and other things.
(d) He says that she was too easy on him.

11. How does Vladek keep from being beaten when he is taken captive in the war?
(a) He speaks to the soldiers in German.
(b) He gives the soldiers information about the Polish strategy.
(c) He offers to give the soldiers money.
(d) He lays down, curled up in a ball.

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

13. What are the pills for, that Anja has in her bureau?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) Diabetes.
(c) Depression.
(d) Nervousness.

14. What are Vladek’s accommodations in the POW camp?
(a) Dormitories.
(b) Unheated tents.
(c) Unheated shacks.
(d) Heated cabins.

15. What starts to happen in the town where Vladek and Anja live after they've had their son?
(a) Race riots.
(b) Labor riots.
(c) Anti-Semitic riots.
(d) Conscription of young men.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vladek say was his reaction to someone getting arrested because of the work Anja did for her friend during the war time?

2. What task is Vladek given after being taken to a camp during the war?

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

4. What does Vladek volunteer for while in the POW camp?

5. What does Artie’s father say his father-in-law wanted to procure for him?

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