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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Anja’s family get the food they need during the war?
(a) They trade textiles for food.
(b) They import it themselves.
(c) The black market.
(d) They steal from the Germans.

2. Where does Vladek get a work card?
(a) At a textile factory.
(b) At a tailor’s shop.
(c) At a tin shop.
(d) At a bakery.

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

4. Where does Vladek visit after he runs into someone he knew on Modrezejowska Street?
(a) To the banks where he hopes to get a loan.
(b) To the shops that owed him money from before the war.
(c) To the stores where people knew him enough to lend him money.
(d) To the food markets where he might be able to buy black market meat.

5. Why do the Germans leave Vladek’s mother-in-law’s nice bedroom set alone when they come to plunder the household?
(a) Vladek’s father-in-law keeps the soldiers from seeing that bedroom.
(b) They do not take it because she is ill.
(c) Vladek’s family hides the bedroom set.
(d) Vladek’s father-in-law bribes them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Vladek hide his money from his in-laws?

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

3. What events also took place on Parshas Truma?

4. What experience does Art Spiegelman’s father contrast with Art’s experience of his friends skating away when his skate broke?

5. How old is Art Spiegelman at the beginning of the memoir?

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