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

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. Where do Vladek and Anja live after they are married?
(a) In a rented studio.
(b) In Anja’s family’s house.
(c) In an apartment building owned by Anja’s father.
(d) In a house Vladek buys.

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

4. Who is the friend Anja “always ran to see” even after she and Vladek were married?
(a) A cousin from Berlin.
(b) A childhood friend.
(c) A communist from Warsaw.
(d) An old boyfriend from home.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened in the Bielsko factory while Vladek and Anja were away?

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

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

4. While in the POW camp, what were the conditions under which Vladek could write home?

5. In Chapter 1, why does Vladek stop hearing from Anja?

(see the answer key)

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