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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Vladek volunteer for while in the POW camp?
(a) An industrial job.
(b) The German Army.
(c) A work detail.
(d) An office job.

2. How does Artie describe the relationship between his father and Anja?
(a) They are a good team.
(b) They are affectionate like lovers.
(c) They are like brother and sister.
(d) They don’t get along.

3. What happens to disturb Vladek and Anja’s peace in 1939?
(a) Richieu dies.
(b) The factory burns down.
(c) Anja is sick.
(d) Vladek is drafted.

4. How often do Vladek and Anja see each other once Vladek’s father-in-law’s business plans for Vladek come through?
(a) Every six months.
(b) Irregularly.
(c) Every other week.
(d) Every month.

5. When does Maus begin?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1958.
(d) 1944.

6. Why does Artie say, in Chpater 1, that he wants to gather this information about Anja?
(a) He says that he wants to tell a personal story, not a story about the Holocaust.
(b) He says that he won’t know the story until he hears it.
(c) He says that it makes his father’s story more human.
(d) He says that he wants to know his father better.

7. What starts to happen in the town where Vladek and Anja live after they've had their son?
(a) Labor riots.
(b) Anti-Semitic riots.
(c) Race riots.
(d) Conscription of young men.

8. What is the age difference between Artie's father and Anja?
(a) They are the same age.
(b) One year.
(c) Four years.
(d) Six years.

9. What are the pills for, that Anja has in her bureau?
(a) Depression.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) Diabetes.
(d) Nervousness.

10. What are Vladek’s accommodations like on the assignment he volunteered for while being a POW?
(a) Much more comfortable than the POW camp.
(b) More comfortable, but less safe than the POW camp.
(c) The same as the POW camp.
(d) Worse than the POW camp.

11. How does Artie’s father describe Anja’s reaction after giving birth?
(a) She was delighted.
(b) She was depressed.
(c) She was sick.
(d) She was proud.

12. What does Vladek do when his eye doctor misdiagnoses him?
(a) He does not say anything.
(b) He reports the doctor to his superior.
(c) He yells at the doctor.
(d) He politely corrects the mistake.

13. What does Vladek say was his reaction to someone getting arrested because of the work Anja did for her friend during the war time?
(a) He wanted to go to America.
(b) He wanted to participate in the conspiracies.
(c) He wanted Anja to repair the damage she’d done.
(d) He was ready to break off his marriage.

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

15. What events also took place on Parshas Truma?
(a) Vladek and Anja were married.
(b) Anja gave birth to Richieu.
(c) Anja was born.
(d) Vladek was drafted.

Short Answer Questions

1. What medical condition does Artie's father have?

2. When did the war begin for Vladek?

3. How does Artie’s father describe Anja’s relationships before marriage?

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

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

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