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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What task is Vladek assigned to after being captured in the war?
(a) Assembling tents.
(b) Ministering to injured soldiers.
(c) Collecting German injured and dead.
(d) Digging trenches.

2. What business was Artie's father in before the war?
(a) Textiles.
(b) Manufacturing.
(c) Finance.
(d) Sales.

3. What effect did Vladek’s shooting have in the war, during the battle before he was captured?
(a) He shot more than one German.
(b) He only shot in the air.
(c) He shot blindly, and did no damage.
(d) He shot one German soldier.

4. What does Artie say was his father’s policy regarding food?
(a) Artie was required to sit through meals even if he didn’t eat anything.
(b) Artie had to eat everything on his plate.
(c) Artie was allowed to eat what he liked.
(d) Artie was encouraged to be a finicky eater.

5. How does Vladek insult Artie without meaning to?
(a) He takes Artie’s money to save it for him.
(b) He throws out his coat.
(c) He chastises him like a child about the ash from his cigarettes.
(d) He refuses to let Artie get up until he has eaten all of his food.

6. How did Artie’s mother die?
(a) Heart attack.
(b) She died in the Holocaust.
(c) Pneumonia.
(d) Suicide.

7. Why does Artie say, in Chpater 1, that he wants to gather this information about Anja?
(a) He says that he wants to know his father better.
(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 tell a personal story, not a story about the Holocaust.

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

9. What does Vladek say was Anja’s response to his strong reaction to someone getting arrested due to the work she was doing for her friend during the war?
(a) He says that she insisted on helping the resistance.
(b) He says that she continued to help the Communists without his knowledge.
(c) He says that she moved to her parents’ house.
(d) He says that she agreed to stop seeing the Communist.

10. What criticism does Lucia make of Anja?
(a) That she is stupid.
(b) That she is poor.
(c) That she is not good looking.
(d) That she is demanding.

11. Who is the friend Anja “always ran to see” even after she and Vladek were married?
(a) An old boyfriend from home.
(b) A communist from Warsaw.
(c) A cousin from Berlin.
(d) A childhood friend.

12. What was Vladek’s chess set made of?
(a) Stones and bread.
(b) Ivory and ebony.
(c) Wood.
(d) Plastic.

13. Where does Artie's father live, in the beginning of the memoir?
(a) Los Angeles, CA.
(b) Berlin, Germany.
(c) Rego Park, NY.
(d) Warsaw, Poland.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Vladek and Anja’s first son?

2. How does Artie characterize his father’s relationship with Mala?

3. While in the POW camp, what were the conditions under which Vladek could write home?

4. What is Artie's father doing when Artie sees him again in Chapter 2?

5. Where did Artie's father meet Anja?

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