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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 tell a personal story, not a story about the Holocaust.
(c) He says that he wants to know his father better.
(d) He says that it makes his father’s story more human.

2. What objection does Artie’s father make about the material Artie is gathering?
(a) He says that it violates Anja’s memory.
(b) He says that it is private.
(c) He says that it is irrelevant.
(d) He says that it has nothing to do with Hitler.

3. Who visits Vladek before he moves to Anja’s town?
(a) Lucia’s brother.
(b) Lucia.
(c) His father.
(d) Anja’s brother.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Artie's father meet Anja?

2. Where does Artie's father live, in the beginning of the memoir?

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

4. What criticism does Lucia make of Anja?

5. What does Vladek do to get back in touch with Anja after she stopped contacting him?

(see the answer key)

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