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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Anja’s involvement with her friend she "always ran to see" even after she and Vladek were married?
(a) She brings him money for political prisoners.
(b) She helps him find houses for refugees.
(c) She helps him write political tracts.
(d) She translates his messages into German.

2. What does Anja’s teacher tell Artie's father tell about Anja?
(a) He had hoped to marry her himself.
(b) He has never had a student as sensitive and intelligent as her.
(c) He has never known someone so refined and cultured as her.
(d) He has never seen anyone work as hard as Anja worked.

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

4. How does Artie’s father describe Anja’s relationships before marriage?
(a) He says that she had no romantic relationships.
(b) He says that she had a fiancé who died of pneumonia.
(c) He says that she had one boyfriend but it wasn’t serious.
(d) He says that she had been engaged a couple of times before him.

5. What effect did Vladek’s shooting have in the war, during the battle before he was captured?
(a) He shot more than one German.
(b) He shot blindly, and did no damage.
(c) He only shot in the air.
(d) He shot one German soldier.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Artie’s father say he was often compared to?

2. What work are Vladek and his fellows given for their work detail?

3. What effect does Vladek’s story about his father rescuing the pillow in 1914 have on Anja?

4. How does Artie’s father characterize Anja’s relationship with Artie?

5. How does Artie characterize his father’s relationship with Mala?

Short Essay Questions

1. What doubts does Vladek have about Anja before he marries her?

2. What consequences do Anja’s political activities have?

3. How does Anja’s family invest in Vladek’s ambitions?

4. What is life like at the sanitarium for Vladek and Anja?

5. Describe Vladek’s health when Artie sees him again at the beginning of Chapter 2.

6. How is it that Vladek comes to know English?

7. What happens to Vladek and Anja in 1939?

8. Describe Vladek’s accommodations at the POW camp.

9. What is Anja’s involvement in the politics in Czechoslovakia?

10. What tasks are Vladek and the other prisoners given after the battle?

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