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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Vladek come back to Anja with, after walking around Sosnowiec?
(a) Money.
(b) Food.
(c) News about the camps.
(d) Directions to a safe town.

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

5. What suggestion does Artie make to his father about his father’ relationship with Mala?
(a) To give her more money to spend.
(b) To take her out to dinner.
(c) To listen.
(d) To see a marriage counselor.

6. What does Artie’s father say happens if he does not pedal on his exercise bike?
(a) His heart gets weak.
(b) He loses feeling in his toes.
(c) He gets short of breath.
(d) He gets leg cramps.

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

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

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

10. What question is Vladek forced to answer when a man stumbles upon the bunker he has made?
(a) Whether to report him to the Germans.
(b) Whether to flee.
(c) Whether to help him.
(d) Whether to trust him.

11. What does Anja tutor Mrs. Motonowa’s son in?
(a) Hebrew.
(b) French.
(c) English.
(d) German.

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

13. What does Vladek make a sketch of, for Artie in Chapter 5?
(a) The camps at Auschwitz.
(b) The layout of the ghetto at Srodula.
(c) The region where Srodula was located.
(d) The bunker at the ghetto at Srodula.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Vladek send Miloch and his wife and child?

2. Where is Vladek’s cousin Miloch hiding?

3. Where had Artie been, when "Prisoner from the Hell Planet" begins?

4. When is “Prisoner on the Hell Planet” set?

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

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