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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Anja’s closet tell Vladek about her character?
(a) She hides her messes.
(b) She is not very tidy.
(c) She keeps things neat.
(d) She has expensive tastes.

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

3. 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 he wants to tell a personal story, not a story about the Holocaust.
(d) He says that it makes his father’s story more human.

4. What task is Vladek given after being taken to a camp during the war?
(a) To dig latrines.
(b) To clean out a stable.
(c) To chop wood.
(d) To dig graves.

5. How does the process of gathering information change Artie’s relationship with his father?
(a) He starts to visit more often.
(b) He starts to fight with him more often.
(c) He starts to relinquish his anger at his father.
(d) He starts to resent his father.

6. What happened in the Bielsko factory while Vladek and Anja were away?
(a) There was a fire.
(b) There were labor riots
(c) It was robbed.
(d) There was a murder.

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

8. How does Vladek say his father escaped from Russian military service?
(a) By blinding himself.
(b) By fleeing to Poland.
(c) By pulling out his teeth.
(d) By cutting off fingers.

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

10. Why does Vladek say his position as a Jew in Poland is less secure than his position as a prisoner of war?
(a) POWs are regulated by war conventions; Jews can be killed with impunity.
(b) As a Jew in Poland, he has to compete with other Jews for all his food and needs.
(c) As a POW, at least there was food.
(d) At home with Anja and his family, he is vulnerable on their behalf as well.

11. 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 shot one German soldier.
(c) He shot blindly, and did no damage.
(d) He only shot in the air.

12. What does Anja’s teacher tell Artie's father tell about Anja?
(a) He has never had a student as sensitive and intelligent as her.
(b) He has never seen anyone work as hard as Anja worked.
(c) He has never known someone so refined and cultured as her.
(d) He had hoped to marry her himself.

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

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

15. What percentage of the workers stayed at the work camp, according to Vladek?
(a) 50%
(b) 25%
(c) 80%
(d) 60%

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Artie’s father say his father-in-law wanted to procure for him?

2. Where do Vladek and Anja live after they are married?

3. How does Vladek keep from being beaten when he is taken captive in the war?

4. How does Artie’s father characterize Anja’s relationship with Artie?

5. How much training does Vladek say he got in the Polish army?

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