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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the punishment for even minor violations of laws during the war?
(a) Being sent to a work camp.
(b) Death.
(c) Public shaming.
(d) Imprisonment.

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

3. How many ounces of bread is each member of Vladek's inlaws entitled to during the war, with the coupons the Germans have issued?
(a) 12.
(b) 6.
(c) 10.
(d) 8.

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

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

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

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

8. Where do Vladek and Anja spend the night after leaving Mrs. Motonowa’s house?
(a) In the street.
(b) In a barn.
(c) In a bare foundation.
(d) In the woods.

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

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

11. 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.

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

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

14. What is Vladek doing when Artie sees him next in Chapter 5?
(a) Bicycling.
(b) Fixing the roof.
(c) Reading.
(d) Sorting nails.

15. As related in Chapter 6, how does Vladek help his fellow prisoners?
(a) He distracts the guard so one can flee.
(b) He smuggles them food.
(c) He writes letters in German.
(d) He bribes the guard for more food.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vladek tell the smugglers?

2. How does the “Prisoner on the Hell Planet” differ from the rest of Maus stylistically?

3. What does Vladek use for currency?

4. What happened to Nahum Cohn, and Jews who did business without coupons?

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

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