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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Vladek avoid trouble at Modrezejowska Street?
(a) He disappears into a building.
(b) He hides in a sewer.
(c) He pretends to be a workman.
(d) He bribes an officer.

2. How had Artie’s mother killed herself?
(a) She shot herself.
(b) She hung herself.
(c) She jumped on railroad tracks.
(d) She slit her wrists.

3. What does Artie say, in Chapter 6, bothers him about his father?
(a) He thinks he is too hung up on Anja’s death.
(b) His opinions would lead to violence like the violence perpetrated against him.
(c) He doesn’t believe all of his father’s stories.
(d) He is just like the stereotype of the miserly Jew.

4. What happened to Vladek’s Bielsko factory during the war?
(a) It was taken by the Germans.
(b) It was robbed.
(c) It was burned down.
(d) It was shuttered.

5. What does Vladek give to Mrs. Motonowa for her protection?
(a) Money.
(b) Protection from roving soldiers.
(c) Work.
(d) Attention.

6. Why does Vladek hide his money from his in-laws?
(a) He doesn’t want to draw attention to his success in the market.
(b) He knows they will just spend it.
(c) He does not trust them.
(d) He wants to plan his escape from Poland.

7. What does the individual whom Vladek runs into on Modrezejowska Street give him?
(a) A note that will get him into his shop.
(b) Contacts for the resistance.
(c) Directions to the free territories.
(d) Money.

8. What happens the next time Vladek goes to Modrezejowska Street?
(a) There is a gun battle.
(b) A fight breaks out between Poles and German soldiers.
(c) The Nazis close off the street to inspect people’s papers.
(d) A roadside bomb goes off.

9. What new tool has Artie brought with him to interview his father?
(a) A new fountain pen.
(b) An assistant.
(c) A typewriter.
(d) A tape recorder.

10. Where does Vladek send Miloch and his wife and child?
(a) To Hungary
(b) To the police.
(c) To Sosnowiec.
(d) To Mrs. Motonowa’s.

11. What does the guard find in Vladek’s shoe polish?
(a) A letter.
(b) A watch.
(c) A ring.
(d) Money.

12. When were Vladek and Anja and the others moved to Srodula?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1942.

13. How many people were living in Vladek’s father-in-law’s household?
(a) 5.
(b) 9.
(c) 12.
(d) 8.

14. Who found Artie’s mother’s body?
(a) Anja’s sister.
(b) Artie
(c) Artie’s sister.
(d) Vladek.

15. What is the punishment for even minor violations of laws during the war?
(a) Death.
(b) Imprisonment.
(c) Public shaming.
(d) Being sent to a work camp.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 4, what does Artie urge his father to do, regarding his story?

2. What business does Vladek say he started after 1942?

3. What were Anja’s last words to Artie?

4. What does Artie say is his mission in writing about his father?

5. Where were Vladek and Anja arrested?

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