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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 does Vladek find out is the problem with his in-laws’ family’s finance during the war?
(a) They have lost their factories, but they are still living like they did before the war.
(b) Their taxes have been raised so high that they are making textiles at a loss.
(c) The cost of things has risen so high that they cannot maintain their lifestyle.
(d) They have to pay so much to bribe German soldiers that there is hardly enough to live on.

2. What does Artie say, in Chapter 6, bothers him about his father?
(a) He doesn’t believe all of his father’s stories.
(b) He thinks he is too hung up on Anja’s death.
(c) He is just like the stereotype of the miserly Jew.
(d) His opinions would lead to violence like the violence perpetrated against him.

3. Where did Vladek and Anja go from Sosnowiec?
(a) Czechoslovakia.
(b) Auschwitz.
(c) Beilsko.
(d) A ghetto.

4. Who does Vladek run into on Modrezejowska Street?
(a) A money lender.
(b) A tailor who used to be a customer of his.
(c) Lucia Greenberg.
(d) A soldier he serve with.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What saves Vladek from a beating at the hands of a German guard while in Srodula?

2. How does Vladek characterize the head of his ghetto?

3. What question is Vladek forced to answer when a man stumbles upon the bunker he has made?

4. Where is Vladek’s cousin Miloch hiding?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Vladek and his fellow prisoners make their way out of Srodula?

2. What does Artie learn from Vladek about Anja’s journals?

3. How do Vladek and Anja end up staying with Mrs. Motonowa?

4. How does Vladek say family relations changed in the ghetto?

5. What complaint does Vladek make about Mala at the bank?

6. What was life like among the Zylberbergs after Vladek returned from the POW camp?

7. How is the “Prisoner on the Hell Planet” different from the rest of Maus?

8. What convinces Vladek and Anja to try to flee to Hungary?

9. How does Artie characterize his father’s attitude toward money in the beginning of Chapter 4?

10. Describe the contents of the “Prisoner on the Hell Planet” comic strip.

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