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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Maus begin?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1944.

2. How does Vladek insult Artie without meaning to?
(a) He refuses to let Artie get up until he has eaten all of his food.
(b) He throws out his coat.
(c) He chastises him like a child about the ash from his cigarettes.
(d) He takes Artie’s money to save it for him.

3. How does Artie’s father characterize Anja’s relationship with Artie?
(a) He says that she was too selfish to care about anyone else.
(b) He says that she loved her son more than she loved her husband.
(c) He says that she was too strict about food and other things.
(d) He says that she was too easy on him.

4. What starts to happen in the town where Vladek and Anja live after they've had their son?
(a) Conscription of young men.
(b) Labor riots.
(c) Race riots.
(d) Anti-Semitic riots.

5. What is Vladek and Anja’s reaction to Vladek being drafted?
(a) Vladek reports, and Anja returns to her parents’.
(b) Vladek and Anja pack and leave for America.
(c) Vladek is taken away, and Anja runs the factory.
(d) Vladek reports, and Anja goes to live with a neighbor.

Short Answer Questions

1. When were Vladek and Anja married?

2. Where do Vladek and Anja live after they are married?

3. What effect does Vladek’s story about his father rescuing the pillow in 1914 have on Anja?

4. What objection does Artie’s father make about the material Artie is gathering?

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

(see the answer key)

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