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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Mrs. Motonowa get Vladek and Anja to her house?
(a) She pretends to be escorting them to the prison camps.
(b) She poses as his wife, and Anja as their governess.
(c) She smuggles them in barrels.
(d) She hides them in her cart beneath the hay.

2. Why does Artie say he hated helping his father around the house?
(a) Vladek would ask him, and then not show up himself.
(b) Vladek would always botch the job then blame it on Artie.
(c) Vladek never had the right tools to work with.
(d) Vladek would always criticize how he did things.

3. What happens when Vladek and Anja are followed after leaving Mrs. Motonowa’s house?
(a) The people continue without bothering them.
(b) The soldiers search them.
(c) They have to run to get away from the people following them.
(d) They are arrested.

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

5. 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 does not trust them.
(c) He wants to plan his escape from Poland.
(d) He knows they will just spend it.

6. Where did Vladek and Anja and her family live in Srodula?
(a) A shack.
(b) A prison.
(c) An apartment.
(d) The streets.

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

8. What does Vladek use for currency?
(a) German Marks.
(b) Polish zlotys.
(c) The jewels he saved.
(d) Food.

9. 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.

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

11. After leaving Mrs. Motonowa’s house, where do Vladek and Anja consider fleeing to?
(a) Latvia.
(b) America.
(c) Hungary.
(d) Russia.

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

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

14. Who were the guards at Srodula?
(a) Polish soldiers.
(b) Jews with sticks.
(c) German soldiers.
(d) Russian soldiers.

15. 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 father-in-law keeps the soldiers from seeing that bedroom.
(b) They do not take it because she is ill.
(c) Vladek’s father-in-law bribes them.
(d) Vladek’s family hides the bedroom set.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Vladek and Anja go from Sosnowiec?

2. What ultimately happened to Richieu?

3. Where does Vladek ride when he takes the street car into town?

4. What does Anja tutor Mrs. Motonowa’s son in?

5. What is Artie's father’s response when Artie says that he should hire someone to fix the broken item in Chapter 4?

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