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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Vladek and Anja live after they are married?
(a) In a rented studio.
(b) In a house Vladek buys.
(c) In Anja’s family’s house.
(d) In an apartment building owned by Anja’s father.

2. Why does Artie say, in Chpater 1, that he wants to gather this information about Anja?
(a) He says that it makes his father’s story more human.
(b) He says that he won’t know the story until he hears it.
(c) He says that he wants to know his father better.
(d) He says that he wants to tell a personal story, not a story about the Holocaust.

3. What does Vladek dream will happen at Parshas Truma?
(a) His condition in the camp will improve.
(b) He will get word to his family.
(c) He will be released.
(d) He will be killed.

4. How does Vladek characterize Anja’s family?
(a) Trades people.
(b) Merchants.
(c) Millionaires.
(d) Poor workers.

5. What wedding gift does Artie’s father say his father-in-law gave him?
(a) Investments.
(b) An inscribed copy of the Torah.
(c) A gold ring.
(d) A gold watch.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are the pills for, that Anja has in her bureau?

3. What is Artie's father doing when Artie sees him again in Chapter 2?

4. What is the age difference between Artie's father and Anja?

5. What was Vladek’s chess set made of?

(see the answer key)

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