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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What wedding gift does Artie’s father say his father-in-law gave him?
(a) An inscribed copy of the Torah.
(b) Investments.
(c) A gold ring.
(d) A gold watch.

3. How does Vladek characterize Anja’s family?
(a) Merchants.
(b) Poor workers.
(c) Millionaires.
(d) Trades people.

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

5. What criticism does Lucia make of Anja?
(a) That she is not good looking.
(b) That she is poor.
(c) That she is stupid.
(d) That she is demanding.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Artie’s mother die?

2. Where did Artie's father meet Anja?

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

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

5. When does Artie’s father say he quit school to work?

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