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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Artie’s father characterize his relationship with women?
(a) He says that he was deeply committed to one girl at a time.
(b) He says that was quite shy.
(c) He says that he often toyed with them.
(d) He says they were seeking him out.

2. How does Vladek say his father escaped from Russian military service?
(a) By pulling out his teeth.
(b) By fleeing to Poland.
(c) By blinding himself.
(d) By cutting off fingers.

3. How did Vladek’s father try to keep him out of the army?
(a) He tried to get him a student deferment.
(b) He got him an officer’s commission.
(c) He tried to get officers to exempt him.
(d) He was put on a starvation diet for three months.

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 it makes his father’s story more human.
(c) He says that he won’t know the story until he hears it.
(d) He says that he wants to know his father better.

5. What does Vladek dream will happen at Parshas Truma?
(a) He will be killed.
(b) His condition in the camp will improve.
(c) He will get word to his family.
(d) He will be released.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Vladek first serve in the army?

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

3. What does Vladek say was his reaction to someone getting arrested because of the work Anja did for her friend during the war time?

4. Who gets arrested because of the work Anja does for her friend?

5. How often do Vladek and Anja see each other once Vladek’s father-in-law’s business plans for Vladek come through?

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