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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Vladek stationed when he was in the Polish army?
(a) On the Russian frontier.
(b) At the coast in the north.
(c) Deep inside Poland.
(d) At the German frontier.

2. What are the pills for, that Anja has in her bureau?
(a) Depression.
(b) Diabetes.
(c) Tuberculosis.
(d) Nervousness.

3. Where does Artie's father live, in the beginning of the memoir?
(a) Warsaw, Poland.
(b) Los Angeles, CA.
(c) Berlin, Germany.
(d) Rego Park, NY.

4. What experience does Art Spiegelman’s father contrast with Art’s experience of his friends skating away when his skate broke?
(a) His experience as a soldier.
(b) His experience as a father.
(c) His experience as a young boy.
(d) His experience in the Holocaust.

5. What reason does Artie's father give for what he is doing in Chapter 2?
(a) He says that it minimizes his expenses.
(b) He says that his doctor requires it.
(c) He says that it is important for him to keep himself alive.
(d) He says that it reduces his pains.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why do the Germans leave Vladek’s mother-in-law’s nice bedroom set alone when they come to plunder the household?

3. What wakes Artie up at the beginning of Chapter 5?

4. What criticism does Lucia make of Anja?

5. What happened to Nahum Cohn, and Jews who did business without coupons?

(see the answer key)

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