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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Vladek and Anja live after they are married?
(a) In Anja’s family’s house.
(b) In a house Vladek buys.
(c) In an apartment building owned by Anja’s father.
(d) In a rented studio.

2. What does Anja’s teacher tell Artie's father tell about Anja?
(a) He has never had a student as sensitive and intelligent as her.
(b) He has never known someone so refined and cultured as her.
(c) He has never seen anyone work as hard as Anja worked.
(d) He had hoped to marry her himself.

3. Who does Artie’s father say he was often compared to?
(a) Fred Astaire.
(b) Humphrey Bogart.
(c) John Wayne.
(d) Rudolph Valentino.

4. What happens to disturb Vladek and Anja’s peace in 1939?
(a) The factory burns down.
(b) Richieu dies.
(c) Anja is sick.
(d) Vladek is drafted.

5. Why does Artie say, in Chpater 1, that he wants to gather this information about Anja?
(a) He says that he won’t know the story until he hears it.
(b) He says that he wants to know his father better.
(c) He says that he wants to tell a personal story, not a story about the Holocaust.
(d) He says that it makes his father’s story more human.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the war begin for Vladek?

2. How does Artie’s father characterize the situation for the Jews in Germany in 1937?

3. How does Anja’s family mend fences after the arrest she caused due to her work with her friend?

4. How does Artie’s father describe Anja’s reaction after giving birth?

5. What plans do Anja’s family and Vladek make after the birth of Vladek and Anja’s first son?

(see the answer key)

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