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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How was Vladek’s brother Marcus kept out of the army?
(a) One hand was mutilated.
(b) He was sent to America.
(c) He was kept on a starvation diet so he would be too thin.
(d) His teeth were pulled out.

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

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

5. Who is Lucia Greenberg?
(a) Art Spiegelman’s mother.
(b) Artie's father’s friend.
(c) Artie's father’s first wife.
(d) The first girl Artie's father has a relationship with.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Vladek do to get back in touch with Anja after she stopped contacting him?

3. What does Anja’s teacher tell Artie's father tell about Anja?

4. What happened to Vladek and Anja’s first son?

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

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