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

2. What does Artie resent in “Prisoner on the Hell Planet”?
(a) His relatives’ apparent indifference.
(b) His father’s heartlessness.
(c) His father’s excessive grief.
(d) His own indifference.

3. What does Vladek find out is the problem with his in-laws’ family’s finance during the war?
(a) They have lost their factories, but they are still living like they did before the war.
(b) Their taxes have been raised so high that they are making textiles at a loss.
(c) They have to pay so much to bribe German soldiers that there is hardly enough to live on.
(d) The cost of things has risen so high that they cannot maintain their lifestyle.

4. How does Vladek avoid trouble at Modrezejowska Street?
(a) He hides in a sewer.
(b) He pretends to be a workman.
(c) He disappears into a building.
(d) He bribes an officer.

5. Where does Vladek ride when he takes the street car into town?
(a) The German car.
(b) The foreigners’ car.
(c) The Jewish car.
(d) The Polish car.

Short Answer Questions

1. What new tool has Artie brought with him to interview his father?

2. How does Art Spiegelman depict the Jews pretending to be Poles?

3. When Vladek and Artie are at the bank together, what complaint does Vladek make about Mala?

4. How does Artie says that his father influenced his decision to become an artist?

5. Why does Artie say he hated helping his father around the house?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Art Spiegelman include Maus within the book itself?

2. How does Vladek say family relations changed in the ghetto?

3. How has the war affected the Zylberbegs morale?

4. How is the “Prisoner on the Hell Planet” different from the rest of Maus?

5. How does Artie get out of helping his father fix the roof?

6. What does Vladek learn from Kahum Cohn’s example?

7. Where does Vladek say he worked in Sosnowiec?

8. What was life like among the Zylberbergs after Vladek returned from the POW camp?

9. How do Vladek and his fellow prisoners make their way out of Srodula?

10. Where do Vladek and his fellow prisoners go after leaving Srodula?

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