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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Vladek do to get back in touch with Anja after she stopped contacting him?
(a) He writes her long letters.
(b) He asks Anja’s father to intercede.
(c) He travels to her town at the weekend.
(d) He phones until she agrees to take his call.

2. What plans do Anja’s family and Vladek make after the birth of Vladek and Anja’s first son?
(a) Vladek and Anja split up temporarily.
(b) Vladek moves to Sosnowiec to wait for Anja.
(c) Vladek and Anja go to a sanitarium in Czechoslovakia.
(d) Vladek and Anja move to Sosnowiec together to start their family.

3. How does Vladek say his father escaped from Russian military service?
(a) By cutting off fingers.
(b) By fleeing to Poland.
(c) By pulling out his teeth.
(d) By blinding himself.

4. What starts to happen in the town where Vladek and Anja live after they've had their son?
(a) Race riots.
(b) Anti-Semitic riots.
(c) Conscription of young men.
(d) Labor riots.

5. How much training does Vladek say he got in the Polish army?
(a) A year.
(b) A few months.
(c) A few weeks
(d) A few days.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Vladek keep from being beaten when he is taken captive in the war?

2. How does Artie describe the relationship between his father and Anja?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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