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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Vladek insult Artie without meaning to?
(a) He chastises him like a child about the ash from his cigarettes.
(b) He throws out his coat.
(c) He refuses to let Artie get up until he has eaten all of his food.
(d) He takes Artie’s money to save it for him.

2. What are the pills for, that Anja has in her bureau?
(a) Diabetes.
(b) Nervousness.
(c) Tuberculosis.
(d) Depression.

3. Where does Vladek take refuge as Srodula is liquidated?
(a) In an underground bunker.
(b) In a bunker inside a pile of shoes.
(c) Beneath the German officers’ quarters.
(d) In the latrine.

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

5. How do Vladek’s in-laws distract themselves from the war?
(a) By playing cards.
(b) By reading.
(c) By dancing and having parties.
(d) By writing the family history.

Short Answer Questions

1. What starts to happen in the town where Vladek and Anja live after they've had their son?

2. Why do the Germans leave Vladek’s mother-in-law’s nice bedroom set alone when they come to plunder the household?

3. What does Vladek make a sketch of, for Artie in Chapter 5?

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

5. What is Artie's father doing while he is telling Artie his story?

(see the answer key)

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