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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 the situation for the Jews in Germany in 1937?
(a) He says that they were already being systematically executed.
(b) He says that they were being exiled.
(c) He says that it was not that bad yet.
(d) He says that they were being persecuted.

2. What work are Vladek and his fellows given for their work detail?
(a) Building shacks.
(b) Digging graves.
(c) Moving mountains.
(d) Burying the dead.

3. Why does Vladek say his position as a Jew in Poland is less secure than his position as a prisoner of war?
(a) As a Jew in Poland, he has to compete with other Jews for all his food and needs.
(b) As a POW, at least there was food.
(c) POWs are regulated by war conventions; Jews can be killed with impunity.
(d) At home with Anja and his family, he is vulnerable on their behalf as well.

4. Who gets arrested because of the work Anja does for her friend?
(a) Anja’s father.
(b) Anja.
(c) Anja’s seamstress.
(d) Vladek.

5. How old is Art Spiegelman at the beginning of the memoir?
(a) Fifteen or sixteen.
(b) Eleven or twelve.
(c) Three or four.
(d) Six or seven.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What complication was there when Art Spiegelman was born?

3. Where does Vladek says that he saw the swastika for the first time?

4. What does Artie's father chide him with, while he is telling Artie stories?

5. What period is covered by Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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