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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Artie say is Vladek’s relationship with Artie’s comic books?
(a) He looks at rough drafts and makes editorial suggestions.
(b) He doesn’t look at them when Artie puts them under his nose.
(c) He reads everything Artie does.
(d) He has never seen Artie’s work.

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

3. 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 criticize how he did things.
(c) Vladek never had the right tools to work with.
(d) Vladek would always botch the job then blame it on Artie.

4. What does Artie's father want him to fix, when Artie shows up at the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) A broken lamp.
(b) A leaking drain pipe.
(c) An electrical outlet.
(d) The kitchen sink.

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

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

7. What does Vladek find out is the problem with his in-laws’ family’s finance during the war?
(a) Their taxes have been raised so high that they are making textiles at a loss.
(b) They have lost their factories, but they are still living like they did before the war.
(c) They have to pay so much to bribe German soldiers that there is hardly enough to live on.
(d) The cost of things has risen so high that they cannot maintain their lifestyle.

8. Who causes Vladek and Anja to be arrested?
(a) The Gestapo stops them randomly.
(b) Their fellow passengers.
(c) The smugglers.
(d) People who used to know them.

9. When Vladek and Artie are at the bank together, what complaint does Vladek make about Mala?
(a) He says that she wants his money for herself.
(b) He says that she always wants to return to Europe.
(c) He says that she is not clean in the house.
(d) He says that she wants to move to the South.

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

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

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

13. What saves Vladek when he has a heart attack on the sidewalk?
(a) Nitrostat.
(b) CPR.
(c) An ambulance.
(d) A paramedic.

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

15. How does Anja’s family get the food they need during the war?
(a) They import it themselves.
(b) They steal from the Germans.
(c) They trade textiles for food.
(d) The black market.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the guard find in Vladek’s shoe polish?

4. Where is Vladek’s cousin Miloch hiding?

5. Why do Vladek and Anja have to leave Mrs. Motonowa’s house?

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