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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Artie say was his father’s policy regarding food?
(a) Artie was required to sit through meals even if he didn’t eat anything.
(b) Artie was allowed to eat what he liked.
(c) Artie was encouraged to be a finicky eater.
(d) Artie had to eat everything on his plate.

2. After their son is born, what do Vladek and Anja hear is going on in Germany?
(a) A pogrom.
(b) Civil war.
(c) Reconciliation.
(d) War.

3. How does Artie says that his father influenced his decision to become an artist?
(a) He had always wanted to represent his father’s stories.
(b) It was a field where he wouldn’t have to compete with his father.
(c) His father had taught him to draw and design things.
(d) It was an area that would keep him close to his father.

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

5. What does Artie’s father say his home was like when he returned from the POW camp?
(a) His in-laws had lost a great deal of their wealth.
(b) His father-in-law lived in even greater splendor.
(c) His in-laws live much the same as before.
(d) His in-laws were still well-off, but not as wealthy as before.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who were the guards at Srodula?

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

4. Whose story does Artie say, in Chapter 1, he wants to tell?

5. What was Vladek’s chess set made of?

(see the answer key)

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