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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After their son is born, what do Vladek and Anja hear is going on in Germany?
(a) War.
(b) Civil war.
(c) Reconciliation.
(d) A pogrom.

2. What territory is Vladek’s home in, after the division of Poland?
(a) The Protectorate.
(b) The Russian section.
(c) The Reich.
(d) Prussia.

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

4. Who is Lucia Greenberg?
(a) Artie's father’s first wife.
(b) The first girl Artie's father has a relationship with.
(c) Art Spiegelman’s mother.
(d) Artie's father’s friend.

5. How does Vladek keep from being beaten when he is taken captive in the war?
(a) He gives the soldiers information about the Polish strategy.
(b) He speaks to the soldiers in German.
(c) He offers to give the soldiers money.
(d) He lays down, curled up in a ball.

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

7. What does Vladek dream will happen at Parshas Truma?
(a) He will be released.
(b) His condition in the camp will improve.
(c) He will get word to his family.
(d) He will be killed.

8. In Chapter 1, why does Vladek stop hearing from Anja?
(a) She wanted to play hard to get.
(b) She had doubts about Vladek’s integrity.
(c) She got a letter from Lucia.
(d) She fell ill.

9. 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 was ready to break off his marriage.
(d) He wanted Anja to repair the damage she’d done.

10. How does Artie’s father describe Anja’s relationships before marriage?
(a) He says that she had no romantic relationships.
(b) He says that she had been engaged a couple of times before him.
(c) He says that she had a fiancé who died of pneumonia.
(d) He says that she had one boyfriend but it wasn’t serious.

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

12. Who visits Vladek before he moves to Anja’s town?
(a) Lucia’s brother.
(b) Lucia.
(c) His father.
(d) Anja’s brother.

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

14. What experience does Art Spiegelman’s father contrast with Art’s experience of his friends skating away when his skate broke?
(a) His experience in the Holocaust.
(b) His experience as a soldier.
(c) His experience as a father.
(d) His experience as a young boy.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What work are Vladek and his fellows given for their work detail?

3. What effect does Vladek’s story about his father rescuing the pillow in 1914 have on Anja?

4. How often do Vladek and Anja see each other once Vladek’s father-in-law’s business plans for Vladek come through?

5. When did the war begin for Vladek?

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