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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What wakes Artie up at the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) Mala is calling because Vladek has climbed out on the roof.
(b) Vladek is calling to invite Artie to come for dinner.
(c) Vladek is calling to borrow some tools.
(d) Vladek is calling to ask Artie to help him with chores.

2. Why does Artie’s father say that Anja’s Uncle Herman and Aunt Helen were lucky?
(a) They were friends with some powerful Nazis.
(b) They had passed as Germans and were saved from the fighting.
(c) The could were in England when the war began.
(d) They were in New York when the war started.

3. How does the “Prisoner on the Hell Planet” differ from the rest of Maus stylistically?
(a) More sinister.
(b) More abstract.
(c) More aesthetically beautiful.
(d) More angular.

4. What is Vladek doing when Artie sees him next in Chapter 5?
(a) Sorting nails.
(b) Bicycling.
(c) Fixing the roof.
(d) Reading.

5. Where does Vladek visit after he runs into someone he knew on Modrezejowska Street?
(a) To the food markets where he might be able to buy black market meat.
(b) To the shops that owed him money from before the war.
(c) To the stores where people knew him enough to lend him money.
(d) To the banks where he hopes to get a loan.

6. What does Anja disagree with Vladek about, after they leave Mrs. Motonowa's house?
(a) Paying Mrs. Motonowa.
(b) Going out in public.
(c) Fleeing.
(d) Hiding any longer.

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

8. How do Vladek’s in-laws distract themselves from the war?
(a) By reading.
(b) By playing cards.
(c) By dancing and having parties.
(d) By writing the family history.

9. Who does Vladek run into on Modrezejowska Street?
(a) A soldier he serve with.
(b) A money lender.
(c) Lucia Greenberg.
(d) A tailor who used to be a customer of his.

10. What business does Vladek say he started after 1942?
(a) Smuggling refugees out of Poland.
(b) Selling forged papers.
(c) Trading gold and silver.
(d) Publishing resistance tracts.

11. What convinces Vladek to flee from Poland?
(a) His suspicions of Mrs. Motonowa’s loyalty.
(b) The Gestapo was cracking down harder and harder.
(c) Anja’s deteriorating state of mind.
(d) The letter from his cousin who had gone ahead.

12. What part of his father’s story does Artie say he wishes he knew more about?
(a) The story of the Polish leaders.
(b) Richieu’s story.
(c) Anja’s story.
(d) The story of the ghettos.

13. When is “Prisoner on the Hell Planet” set?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1968.

14. What complaint does Vladek’s mother-in-law make about her soup?
(a) She can’t get the ingredients she needs.
(b) She cannot afford to use as much fuel as it takes to cook it right.
(c) She cannot make as much of as she would like.
(d) She can’t remember the recipe.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Mala’s mother hide, that she survived living in the ghetto?

2. How does Artie describe the position his mother puts him in by killing herself?

3. What happens the next time Vladek goes to Modrezejowska Street?

4. Where are Vladek and Anja reunited?

5. What does Vladek make a sketch of, for Artie in Chapter 5?

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