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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does Vladek characterize Anja’s family?
(a) Millionaires.
(b) Merchants.
(c) Poor workers.
(d) Trades people.
2. What medical condition does Artie's father have?
(a) Heart disease.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Diabetes.
(d) Emphysema.
3. How old is Art Spiegelman at the beginning of the memoir?
(a) Three or four.
(b) Fifteen or sixteen.
(c) Eleven or twelve.
(d) Six or seven.
4. How does the process of gathering information change Artie’s relationship with his father?
(a) He starts to fight with him more often.
(b) He starts to relinquish his anger at his father.
(c) He starts to resent his father.
(d) He starts to visit more often.
5. When does Maus begin?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1938.
6. Whose story does Artie say, in Chapter 1, he wants to tell?
(a) His mother’s.
(b) The Holocaust’s.
(c) His father’s.
(d) His own.
7. What is Artie's father doing when Artie sees him again in Chapter 2?
(a) Building book shelves.
(b) Cooking.
(c) Working out.
(d) Counting pills.
8. While in the POW camp, what were the conditions under which Vladek could write home?
(a) He had to write in code.
(b) He could not tell the truth of his condition.
(c) He had to write in German.
(d) He had to praise the Germans.
9. What happens to disturb Vladek and Anja’s peace in 1939?
(a) Anja is sick.
(b) Richieu dies.
(c) Vladek is drafted.
(d) The factory burns down.
10. How does Artie’s father describe Anja’s reaction after giving birth?
(a) She was sick.
(b) She was depressed.
(c) She was proud.
(d) She was delighted.
11. What does Anja’s closet tell Vladek about her character?
(a) She keeps things neat.
(b) She has expensive tastes.
(c) She hides her messes.
(d) She is not very tidy.
12. How does Anja’s family mend fences after the arrest she caused due to her work with her friend?
(a) They pay to send Anja’s friend to America.
(b) They get involved in the resistance.
(c) They turn Anja’s friend in to the police.
(d) They pay the seamstress a good amount of money.
13. How did Vladek’s father try to keep him out of the army?
(a) He got him an officer’s commission.
(b) He was put on a starvation diet for three months.
(c) He tried to get officers to exempt him.
(d) He tried to get him a student deferment.
14. What does Artie's father chide him with, while he is telling Artie stories?
(a) Not asking enough questions
(b) Listening so passively.
(c) Not having experienced anything like the Holocaust.
(d) Dropping cigarette ash on the carpet.
15. What problem does Vladek have with his eyes?
(a) He has ruptured blood vessels in his eyes, and has reduced vision.
(b) He has macular degeneration in both eyes.
(c) He has glaucoma in both eyes.
(d) He has one glass eye, and cataracts in the other.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where does Vladek says that he saw the swastika for the first time?
2. Where does Artie’s father say he lived during the Great War?
3. How does Artie’s father characterize his relationship with women?
4. Who visits Vladek before he moves to Anja’s town?
5. What task is Vladek assigned to after being captured in the war?
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