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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Vladek give to Mrs. Motonowa for her protection?
(a) Protection from roving soldiers.
(b) Money.
(c) Work.
(d) Attention.

3. How had Artie’s mother killed herself?
(a) She jumped on railroad tracks.
(b) She slit her wrists.
(c) She shot herself.
(d) She hung herself.

4. Where does Vladek visit after he runs into someone he knew on Modrezejowska Street?
(a) To the banks where he hopes to get a loan.
(b) To the shops that owed him money from before the war.
(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.

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

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

7. What offer does Ilzecki make to Vladek, as described in Chapter 4?
(a) He offers to help Vladek return to his factory in Bielsko.
(b) He offers to get Vladek a job in a factory.
(c) He offers to send Richieu away for safekeeping.
(d) He offers to smuggle Vladek and his wife out of Poland.

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

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

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

11. How does Ilzecki save Vladek’s life?
(a) He pays a German officer to keep him from being deported.
(b) He vouches for him when the Germans have arrested him.
(c) He gives him somewhere to hide when the Nazis are rounding up Jews.
(d) He gives him forged papers that allow him to travel.

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

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What accusation does Artie make to his father when he finds out that Vladek had destroyed Anja’s journals?

2. Why does Vladek hide his money from his in-laws?

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

4. Where does Vladek get a work card?

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

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