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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) The could were in England when the war began.
(c) They had passed as Germans and were saved from the fighting.
(d) They were in New York when the war started.

2. Where does Vladek ride when he takes the street car into town?
(a) The Jewish car.
(b) The German car.
(c) The Polish car.
(d) The foreigners’ car.

3. Where is Vladek’s cousin Miloch hiding?
(a) In a factory.
(b) In a garbage pit.
(c) In a piano.
(d) In a basement.

4. What happened to Nahum Cohn, and Jews who did business without coupons?
(a) They were hung.
(b) They were deported.
(c) They were interrogated.
(d) They were arrested and beaten.

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

6. Who did the Germans round up in the spring of 1944?
(a) The working-age men.
(b) The women.
(c) The children.
(d) The old people.

7. Why do the Germans leave Vladek’s mother-in-law’s nice bedroom set alone when they come to plunder the household?
(a) Vladek’s family hides the bedroom set.
(b) Vladek’s father-in-law bribes them.
(c) Vladek’s father-in-law keeps the soldiers from seeing that bedroom.
(d) They do not take it because she is ill.

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

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

10. Where did the Zylberberg family go on January 1, 1942?
(a) A work camp.
(b) A concentration camp.
(c) A factory.
(d) A smaller apartment.

11. Who does Vladek run into on the streets of Sosnowiec?
(a) A distant cousin.
(b) A fellow Jew.
(c) Gestapo.
(d) Former business associates.

12. Where did Mala’s mother hide, that she survived living in the ghetto?
(a) In a crawlspace.
(b) In a coal cellar.
(c) In an abandoned factory.
(d) Inside a hidden closet.

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

14. What accusation does Artie make to his father when he finds out that Vladek had destroyed Anja’s journals?
(a) Selfish man.
(b) Bastard.
(c) Murderer.
(d) Liar.

15. How does Artie says that his father influenced his decision to become an artist?
(a) His father had taught him to draw and design things.
(b) It was a field where he wouldn’t have to compete with his father.
(c) It was an area that would keep him close to his father.
(d) He had always wanted to represent his father’s stories.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Vladek run into on Modrezejowska Street?

2. What does Vladek give to Mrs. Motonowa for her protection?

3. Where did Vladek and Anja and her family live in Srodula?

4. What new tool has Artie brought with him to interview his father?

5. Why does Artie say he hated helping his father around the house?

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