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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 is Vladek’s relationship with Artie’s comic books?
(a) He doesn’t look at them when Artie puts them under his nose.
(b) He looks at rough drafts and makes editorial suggestions.
(c) He has never seen Artie’s work.
(d) He reads everything Artie does.

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

3. Who does Vladek run into on Modrezejowska Street?
(a) A tailor who used to be a customer of his.
(b) Lucia Greenberg.
(c) A money lender.
(d) A soldier he serve with.

4. What saves Vladek from a beating at the hands of a German guard while in Srodula?
(a) The arrival of the guard’s ranking officer.
(b) His connection with Haskel Spiegelman.
(c) His ability to bribe the officer.
(d) The arrival of a crowd of Jews.

5. How does the “Prisoner on the Hell Planet” differ from the rest of Maus stylistically?
(a) More sinister.
(b) More aesthetically beautiful.
(c) More abstract.
(d) More angular.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who found Artie’s mother’s body?

2. What are Vladek’s accommodations like on the assignment he volunteered for while being a POW?

3. After their son is born, what do Vladek and Anja hear is going on in Germany?

4. What does Artie's father want him to fix, when Artie shows up at the beginning of Chapter 4?

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

(see the answer key)

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