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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose story does Artie say, in Chapter 1, he wants to tell?
(a) His father’s.
(b) His mother’s.
(c) The Holocaust’s.
(d) His own.

2. What complication was there when Art Spiegelman was born?
(a) He was a breach birth.
(b) He was premature.
(c) He was almost strangulated by the umbilical cord.
(d) He was sickly.

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

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

5. Where does Vladek visit after he runs into someone he knew on Modrezejowska Street?
(a) To the food markets where he might be able to buy black market meat.
(b) To the shops that owed him money from before the war.
(c) To the stores where people knew him enough to lend him money.
(d) To the banks where he hopes to get a loan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who visits Vladek before he moves to Anja’s town?

2. What does the individual whom Vladek runs into on Modrezejowska Street give him?

3. What is Anja’s involvement with her friend she "always ran to see" even after she and Vladek were married?

4. How old is Art Spiegelman at the beginning of the memoir?

5. What was the outcome for the person who was arrested due to Anja's work for her friend?

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