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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What accusation does Artie make to his father when he finds out that Vladek had destroyed Anja’s journals?
(a) Selfish man.
(b) Murderer.
(c) Liar.
(d) Bastard.

2. Where were Vladek and Anja arrested?
(a) In Bielsko.
(b) In Hungary.
(c) In Latvia.
(d) In Sosnowiec.

3. What happened to Vladek’s Bielsko factory during the war?
(a) It was robbed.
(b) It was taken by the Germans.
(c) It was burned down.
(d) It was shuttered.

4. What is the punishment for even minor violations of laws during the war?
(a) Imprisonment.
(b) Public shaming.
(c) Being sent to a work camp.
(d) Death.

5. Where does Vladek ride when he takes the street car into town?
(a) The German car.
(b) The Jewish car.
(c) The Polish car.
(d) The foreigners’ car.

6. Where does Vladek say he made a bunker in the second house he lived in at Srodula?
(a) In a tin shop.
(b) In the attic.
(c) In the basement.
(d) In factory.

7. What does Artie's father want him to fix, when Artie shows up at the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) A broken lamp.
(b) The kitchen sink.
(c) An electrical outlet.
(d) A leaking drain pipe.

8. When were Vladek and Anja and the others moved to Srodula?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1942.

9. What complaint does Vladek’s mother-in-law make about her soup?
(a) She can’t remember the recipe.
(b) She cannot make as much of as she would like.
(c) She can’t get the ingredients she needs.
(d) She cannot afford to use as much fuel as it takes to cook it right.

10. What suggestion does Artie make to his father about his father’ relationship with Mala?
(a) To listen.
(b) To give her more money to spend.
(c) To take her out to dinner.
(d) To see a marriage counselor.

11. What does Artie say is his mission in writing about his father?
(a) To portray him as he actually is.
(b) To justify his father’s personality by recounting his trials.
(c) To represent the best of his father’s personality.
(d) To bear witness to the whole story of the Jews in the Holocaust through him.

12. What happens when Vladek and Anja are followed after leaving Mrs. Motonowa’s house?
(a) They have to run to get away from the people following them.
(b) They are arrested.
(c) The soldiers search them.
(d) The people continue without bothering them.

13. Where does Vladek send Miloch and his wife and child?
(a) To Mrs. Motonowa’s.
(b) To Hungary
(c) To the police.
(d) To Sosnowiec.

14. Who causes Vladek and Anja to be arrested?
(a) The smugglers.
(b) Their fellow passengers.
(c) The Gestapo stops them randomly.
(d) People who used to know them.

15. What does Artie resent in “Prisoner on the Hell Planet”?
(a) His own indifference.
(b) His father’s excessive grief.
(c) His relatives’ apparent indifference.
(d) His father’s heartlessness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Artie say overwhelms him at his mother’s funeral?

2. What does Vladek find out is the problem with his in-laws’ family’s finance during the war?

3. What is Artie's father’s response when Artie says that he should hire someone to fix the broken item in Chapter 4?

4. Who found Artie’s mother’s body?

5. How many people were living in Vladek’s father-in-law’s household?

(see the answer keys)

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