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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the individual whom Vladek runs into on Modrezejowska Street give him?
(a) Money.
(b) Contacts for the resistance.
(c) Directions to the free territories.
(d) A note that will get him into his shop.

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

3. What happened to Nahum Cohn, and Jews who did business without coupons?
(a) They were deported.
(b) They were interrogated.
(c) They were hung.
(d) They were arrested and beaten.

4. What does Artie’s father say his home was like when he returned from the POW camp?
(a) His father-in-law lived in even greater splendor.
(b) His in-laws were still well-off, but not as wealthy as before.
(c) His in-laws had lost a great deal of their wealth.
(d) His in-laws live much the same as before.

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

6. 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 bunker at the ghetto at Srodula.
(d) The region where Srodula was located.

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

8. What business does Vladek say he started after 1942?
(a) Smuggling refugees out of Poland.
(b) Trading gold and silver.
(c) Selling forged papers.
(d) Publishing resistance tracts.

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

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

11. How does Artie describe the position his mother puts him in by killing herself?
(a) He feels like a priest, who has heard her confession.
(b) He feels like a prisoner, who is guilty for having killed her.
(c) He feels like an artist, who can only feel his experiences if he uses them for his art.
(d) He feels like a child, who cannot offer his mother anything.

12. What does Artie say is his mission in writing about his father?
(a) To represent the best of his father’s personality.
(b) To justify his father’s personality by recounting his trials.
(c) To portray him as he actually is.
(d) To bear witness to the whole story of the Jews in the Holocaust through him.

13. What part of his father’s story does Artie say he wishes he knew more about?
(a) The story of the Polish leaders.
(b) Richieu’s story.
(c) The story of the ghettos.
(d) Anja’s story.

14. 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 reads everything Artie does.
(c) He has never seen Artie’s work.
(d) He doesn’t look at them when Artie puts them under his nose.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Vladek’s Bielsko factory during the war?

2. Who does Vladek run into on Modrezejowska Street?

3. Why do the Germans leave Vladek’s mother-in-law’s nice bedroom set alone when they come to plunder the household?

4. Where did the Zylberberg family go on January 1, 1942?

5. Who found Artie’s mother’s body?

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