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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Vladek end up in the army after all?
(a) He was drafted.
(b) He refused to go on the starvation diet the second time.
(c) He was deemed healthy in spite of having starved himself down again.
(d) They lowered the requirements so that he was now healthy enough to be inducted.

2. What effect does Vladek’s story about his father rescuing the pillow in 1914 have on Anja?
(a) It convinces her that she can trust him.
(b) It reassures her.
(c) It reminds her why they must carry on.
(d) It lifts her spirits.

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 goes to live with a neighbor.
(c) Vladek is taken away, and Anja runs the factory.
(d) Vladek reports, and Anja returns to her parents’.

4. What does Vladek find out is the problem with his in-laws’ family’s finance during the war?
(a) They have lost their factories, but they are still living like they did before the war.
(b) The cost of things has risen so high that they cannot maintain their lifestyle.
(c) They have to pay so much to bribe German soldiers that there is hardly enough to live on.
(d) Their taxes have been raised so high that they are making textiles at a loss.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the friend Anja “always ran to see” even after she and Vladek were married?

2. How does Anja’s family mend fences after the arrest she caused due to her work with her friend?

3. Where does Vladek say he made a bunker in the second house he lived in at Srodula?

4. What happened to Nahum Cohn, and Jews who did business without coupons?

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

(see the answer key)

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