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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Vladek insult Artie without meaning to?
(a) He chastises him like a child about the ash from his cigarettes.
(b) He takes Artie’s money to save it for him.
(c) He refuses to let Artie get up until he has eaten all of his food.
(d) He throws out his coat.

2. What territory is Vladek’s home in, after the division of Poland?
(a) The Protectorate.
(b) The Russian section.
(c) The Reich.
(d) Prussia.

3. What is the age difference between Artie's father and Anja?
(a) They are the same age.
(b) Six years.
(c) One year.
(d) Four years.

4. What experience does Art Spiegelman’s father contrast with Art’s experience of his friends skating away when his skate broke?
(a) His experience as a father.
(b) His experience as a soldier.
(c) His experience in the Holocaust.
(d) His experience as a young boy.

5. What work are Vladek and his fellows given for their work detail?
(a) Moving mountains.
(b) Digging graves.
(c) Building shacks.
(d) Burying the dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Artie’s father describe Anja’s reaction after giving birth?

2. What happens to disturb Vladek and Anja’s peace in 1939?

3. What is Vladek and Anja’s reaction to Vladek being drafted?

4. What does Vladek volunteer for while in the POW camp?

5. What period is covered by Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Vladek’s health when Artie sees him again at the beginning of Chapter 2.

2. What doubts does Vladek have about Artie’s comic book idea?

3. Describe Vladek’s accommodations at the POW camp.

4. What does Vladek do with Artie’s jacket?

5. Describe the partition of Poland under the Nazis.

6. What tasks are Vladek and the other prisoners given after the battle?

7. How is it that Vladek comes to know English?

8. How does Artie characterize his father’s relationship with Mala, his wife?

9. What problems does Artie's father have with his eyes?

10. How does Anja’s family invest in Vladek’s ambitions?

(see the answer keys)

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