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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While in the POW camp, what were the conditions under which Vladek could write home?
(a) He had to write in German.
(b) He had to write in code.
(c) He had to praise the Germans.
(d) He could not tell the truth of his condition.

2. How does Anja’s family mend fences after the arrest she caused due to her work with her friend?
(a) They pay the seamstress a good amount of money.
(b) They pay to send Anja’s friend to America.
(c) They get involved in the resistance.
(d) They turn Anja’s friend in to the police.

3. Whose story does Artie say, in Chapter 1, he wants to tell?
(a) The Holocaust’s.
(b) His mother’s.
(c) His own.
(d) His father’s.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. What objection does Artie’s father make about the material Artie is gathering?
(a) He says that it is private.
(b) He says that it violates Anja’s memory.
(c) He says that it is irrelevant.
(d) He says that it has nothing to do with Hitler.

7. How does Vladek characterize his attitude about being in the army?
(a) He was opposed to violence in any form.
(b) He was willing to kill Germans if it kept Poland free.
(c) He says that he didn’t want to shoot anyone, so he shot blindly.
(d) He was anxious to prove himself a true Pole.

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

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

10. When were Vladek and Anja married?
(a) 1934.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1937.

11. When does Artie’s father say he quit school to work?
(a) Seven.
(b) Fourteen.
(c) Nine.
(d) Eighteen.

12. What are Vladek’s accommodations in the POW camp?
(a) Unheated tents.
(b) Dormitories.
(c) Heated cabins.
(d) Unheated shacks.

13. 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 wants to know his father better.
(c) He says that it makes his father’s story more human.
(d) He says that he won’t know the story until he hears it.

14. What effect does Vladek’s story about his father rescuing the pillow in 1914 have on Anja?
(a) It reassures her.
(b) It lifts her spirits.
(c) It convinces her that she can trust him.
(d) It reminds her why they must carry on.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the friend Anja “always ran to see” even after she and Vladek were married?

3. What is the age difference between Artie's father and Anja?

4. How does Vladek insult Artie without meaning to?

5. What territory is Vladek’s home in, after the division of Poland?

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