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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How had Artie’s mother killed herself?
(a) She hung herself.
(b) She shot herself.
(c) She jumped on railroad tracks.
(d) She slit her wrists.

2. Where does Vladek says that he saw the swastika for the first time?
(a) Belgium.
(b) Germany.
(c) Czechoslovakia.
(d) Poland.

3. How does Vladek keep from being beaten when he is taken captive in the war?
(a) He offers to give the soldiers money.
(b) He speaks to the soldiers in German.
(c) He gives the soldiers information about the Polish strategy.
(d) He lays down, curled up in a ball.

4. What does Vladek say was his reaction to someone getting arrested because of the work Anja did for her friend during the war time?
(a) He wanted Anja to repair the damage she’d done.
(b) He was ready to break off his marriage.
(c) He wanted to participate in the conspiracies.
(d) He wanted to go to America.

5. What experience does Art Spiegelman’s father contrast with Art’s experience of his friends skating away when his skate broke?
(a) His experience in the Holocaust.
(b) His experience as a father.
(c) His experience as a young boy.
(d) His experience as a soldier.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vladek dream will happen at Parshas Truma?

2. While in the POW camp, what were the conditions under which Vladek could write home?

3. After their son is born, what do Vladek and Anja hear is going on in Germany?

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

5. How does Artie's father surprise Anja on their first date?

(see the answer key)

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