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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question is Vladek forced to answer when a man stumbles upon the bunker he has made?
(a) Whether to flee.
(b) Whether to help him.
(c) Whether to report him to the Germans.
(d) Whether to trust him.

2. How does Mrs. Motonowa get Vladek and Anja to her house?
(a) She pretends to be escorting them to the prison camps.
(b) She hides them in her cart beneath the hay.
(c) She poses as his wife, and Anja as their governess.
(d) She smuggles them in barrels.

3. What is Vladek doing when Artie sees him next in Chapter 5?
(a) Bicycling.
(b) Reading.
(c) Sorting nails.
(d) Fixing the roof.

4. In Chapter 4, what does Artie urge his father to do, regarding his story?
(a) Tell him the history of each of the people he mentions.
(b) Keep his story chronologically straight.
(c) Speed up his narration.
(d) Tell him every detail.

5. Who does Vladek run into on Modrezejowska Street?
(a) A money lender.
(b) Lucia Greenberg.
(c) A tailor who used to be a customer of his.
(d) A soldier he serve with.

6. Who does Vladek run into on the streets of Sosnowiec?
(a) Gestapo.
(b) A distant cousin.
(c) A fellow Jew.
(d) Former business associates.

7. When were Vladek and Anja and the others moved to Srodula?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1943.

8. Who found Artie’s mother’s body?
(a) Anja’s sister.
(b) Artie
(c) Vladek.
(d) Artie’s sister.

9. What happened to Vladek’s Bielsko factory during the war?
(a) It was burned down.
(b) It was taken by the Germans.
(c) It was robbed.
(d) It was shuttered.

10. What were Anja’s last words to Artie?
(a) Goodnight, honey.
(b) Remember me.
(c) You’ll take care of your father, won’t you?
(d) You still love me, don’t you?

11. What does Artie say overwhelms him at his mother’s funeral?
(a) Resentment.
(b) Grief.
(c) Guilt.
(d) Despair.

12. What does Artie say is his mission in writing about his father?
(a) To represent the best of his father’s personality.
(b) To justify his father’s personality by recounting his trials.
(c) To bear witness to the whole story of the Jews in the Holocaust through him.
(d) To portray him as he actually is.

13. What does Artie’s father say his home was like when he returned from the POW camp?
(a) His father-in-law lived in even greater splendor.
(b) His in-laws had lost a great deal of their wealth.
(c) His in-laws were still well-off, but not as wealthy as before.
(d) His in-laws live much the same as before.

14. In what way does Mala say Vladek is unique among people she knew from the camps?
(a) No one else is so cheap.
(b) No one else is so generous.
(c) No one else is so manipulative.
(d) No one else is so sulky.

15. What does the individual whom Vladek runs into on Modrezejowska Street give him?
(a) Money.
(b) Directions to the free territories.
(c) Contacts for the resistance.
(d) A note that will get him into his shop.

Short Answer Questions

1. What complaint does Mala make about Vladek at the beginning of Chapter 6?

2. What ultimately happened to Richieu?

3. What saves Vladek when he has a heart attack on the sidewalk?

4. What do Vladek’s fellow prisoners pay him with, for his help?

5. What happens the next time Vladek goes to Modrezejowska Street?

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