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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Vladek tell the smugglers?
(a) That he will go in the future.
(b) That he is ready to leave.
(c) That he doesn’t have enough money.
(d) That he needs guarantees.

2. What happens when Vladek and Anja are followed after leaving Mrs. Motonowa’s house?
(a) The soldiers search them.
(b) They are arrested.
(c) They have to run to get away from the people following them.
(d) The people continue without bothering them.

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

4. What does Artie’s father say happens if he does not pedal on his exercise bike?
(a) He gets short of breath.
(b) He gets leg cramps.
(c) He loses feeling in his toes.
(d) His heart gets weak.

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

6. What does Vladek give to Mrs. Motonowa for her protection?
(a) Work.
(b) Protection from roving soldiers.
(c) Attention.
(d) Money.

7. Where were Vladek and Anja arrested?
(a) In Hungary.
(b) In Bielsko.
(c) In Latvia.
(d) In Sosnowiec.

8. What offer does Ilzecki make to Vladek, as described in Chapter 4?
(a) He offers to get Vladek a job in a factory.
(b) He offers to help Vladek return to his factory in Bielsko.
(c) He offers to smuggle Vladek and his wife out of Poland.
(d) He offers to send Richieu away for safekeeping.

9. What is Artie's father’s response when Artie says that he should hire someone to fix the broken item in Chapter 4?
(a) He can’t afford it.
(b) Money doesn’t grow on trees.
(c) He can’t find good help.
(d) It isn’t dignified to pay for such simple work.

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

11. What do Vladek’s fellow prisoners pay him with, for his help?
(a) Favors.
(b) Money.
(c) Contacts with good smugglers.
(d) Food.

12. How does Ilzecki save Vladek’s life?
(a) He vouches for him when the Germans have arrested him.
(b) He gives him forged papers that allow him to travel.
(c) He pays a German officer to keep him from being deported.
(d) He gives him somewhere to hide when the Nazis are rounding up Jews.

13. Who did the Germans round up in the spring of 1944?
(a) The women.
(b) The working-age men.
(c) The children.
(d) The old people.

14. How does the “Prisoner on the Hell Planet” differ from the rest of Maus stylistically?
(a) More aesthetically beautiful.
(b) More angular.
(c) More abstract.
(d) More sinister.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Vladek run into on Modrezejowska Street?

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

3. Where is Vladek’s cousin Miloch hiding?

4. What part of his father’s story does Artie say he wishes he knew more about?

5. After leaving Mrs. Motonowa’s house, where do Vladek and Anja consider fleeing to?

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