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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the process of gathering information change Artie’s relationship with his father?
(a) He starts to relinquish his anger at his father.
(b) He starts to resent his father.
(c) He starts to fight with him more often.
(d) He starts to visit more often.

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

3. What plans do Anja’s family and Vladek make after the birth of Vladek and Anja’s first son?
(a) Vladek and Anja split up temporarily.
(b) Vladek and Anja move to Sosnowiec together to start their family.
(c) Vladek moves to Sosnowiec to wait for Anja.
(d) Vladek and Anja go to a sanitarium in Czechoslovakia.

4. How does Vladek say his father escaped from Russian military service?
(a) By cutting off fingers.
(b) By fleeing to Poland.
(c) By blinding himself.
(d) By pulling out his teeth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Artie’s father characterize the situation for the Jews in Germany in 1937?

2. How does Vladek keep from being beaten when he is taken captive in the war?

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

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

5. How did Vladek’s father try to keep him out of the army?

(see the answer key)

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