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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Vladek characterize his attitude about being in the army?
(a) He was opposed to violence in any form.
(b) He says that he didn’t want to shoot anyone, so he shot blindly.
(c) He was willing to kill Germans if it kept Poland free.
(d) He was anxious to prove himself a true Pole.

2. What does Vladek say was Anja’s response to his strong reaction to someone getting arrested due to the work she was doing for her friend during the war?
(a) He says that she moved to her parents’ house.
(b) He says that she agreed to stop seeing the Communist.
(c) He says that she insisted on helping the resistance.
(d) He says that she continued to help the Communists without his knowledge.

3. What business was Artie's father in before the war?
(a) Textiles.
(b) Finance.
(c) Manufacturing.
(d) Sales.

4. Whose story does Artie say, in Chapter 1, he wants to tell?
(a) His own.
(b) His father’s.
(c) His mother’s.
(d) The Holocaust’s.

5. What does Artie’s father say his father-in-law wanted to procure for him?
(a) A textile factory.
(b) A political appointment.
(c) Tickets to America.
(d) A textile shop.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Artie’s father describe Anja’s relationships before marriage?

2. What percentage of the workers stayed at the work camp, according to Vladek?

3. What does Anja’s closet tell Vladek about her character?

4. What is Vladek and Anja’s reaction to Vladek being drafted?

5. What experience does Art Spiegelman’s father contrast with Art’s experience of his friends skating away when his skate broke?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Anja’s involvement in the politics in Czechoslovakia?

2. What two worlds are juxtaposed in the opening scene?

3. In addition to Vladek being released from the work camp during Parshas Truma, what events take place at Parshas Truma?

4. What news greets Vladek and Anja when they return from Czechoslovakia to Poland?

5. Describe Vladek’s relationship with Lucia Greenberg, as described in Chapter 1.

6. What explains Vladek’s decision to marry Anja and not Lucia Greenberg?

7. How does Anja’s family invest in Vladek’s ambitions?

8. Describe Vladek’s health when Artie sees him again at the beginning of Chapter 2.

9. Describe the partition of Poland under the Nazis.

10. Describe Vladek’s dream and its meaning.

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