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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What percentage of the workers stayed at the work camp, according to Vladek?
(a) 80%
(b) 50%
(c) 60%
(d) 25%

2. What does Artie's father chide him with, while he is telling Artie stories?
(a) Dropping cigarette ash on the carpet.
(b) Listening so passively.
(c) Not asking enough questions
(d) Not having experienced anything like the Holocaust.

3. Why do the Germans leave Vladek’s mother-in-law’s nice bedroom set alone when they come to plunder the household?
(a) They do not take it because she is ill.
(b) Vladek’s father-in-law bribes them.
(c) Vladek’s family hides the bedroom set.
(d) Vladek’s father-in-law keeps the soldiers from seeing that bedroom.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose story does Artie say, in Chapter 1, he wants to tell?

2. What is the punishment for even minor violations of laws during the war?

3. What offer does Ilzecki make to Vladek, as described in Chapter 4?

4. Where did the Zylberberg family go on January 1, 1942?

5. What business was Artie's father in before the war?

(see the answer key)

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