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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do Vladek’s fellow prisoners pay him with, for his help?
(a) Money.
(b) Favors.
(c) Contacts with good smugglers.
(d) Food.

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) He doesn’t believe all of his father’s stories.
(c) He is just like the stereotype of the miserly Jew.
(d) His opinions would lead to violence like the violence perpetrated against him.

4. Who ultimately takes Richieu away from the ghetto?
(a) The Germans.
(b) Freedom fighters.
(c) Persis.
(d) Vladek’s father.

5. What does Artie’s father say Anja was doing during their time in the ghetto?
(a) Taking care of neighborhood children.
(b) Selling things on the black market.
(c) Researching methods of escape.
(d) Housework, and writing in her journal.

6. What does Artie say overwhelms him at his mother’s funeral?
(a) Guilt.
(b) Despair.
(c) Resentment.
(d) Grief.

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

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

9. What complaint does Mala make about Vladek at the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) That he is stingy.
(b) That he is resentful.
(c) That he is depressed.
(d) That he is violent.

10. What does Artie resent in “Prisoner on the Hell Planet”?
(a) His own indifference.
(b) His relatives’ apparent indifference.
(c) His father’s heartlessness.
(d) His father’s excessive grief.

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

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

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

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

15. What does Vladek tell the smugglers?
(a) That he doesn’t have enough money.
(b) That he will go in the future.
(c) That he is ready to leave.
(d) That he needs guarantees.

Short Answer Questions

1. What saves Vladek from a beating at the hands of a German guard while in Srodula?

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

3. How does Art Spiegelman depict the Jews pretending to be Poles?

4. Where did Vladek and Anja go from Sosnowiec?

5. How does Mrs. Motonowa get Vladek and Anja to her house?

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