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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 Artie’s father describe Anja’s relationships before marriage?
(a) He says that she had been engaged a couple of times before him.
(b) He says that she had one boyfriend but it wasn’t serious.
(c) He says that she had no romantic relationships.
(d) He says that she had a fiancé who died of pneumonia.

2. When did the war begin for Vladek?
(a) April 30, 1938.
(b) September 1, 1939.
(c) July 15, 1938.
(d) May 1, 1940.

3. What does Vladek say was his reaction to someone getting arrested because of the work Anja did for her friend during the war time?
(a) He wanted Anja to repair the damage she’d done.
(b) He was ready to break off his marriage.
(c) He wanted to participate in the conspiracies.
(d) He wanted to go to America.

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 young boy.
(c) His experience as a soldier.
(d) His experience in the Holocaust.

5. What does Artie’s father say his father-in-law wanted to procure for him?
(a) A textile shop.
(b) A textile factory.
(c) Tickets to America.
(d) A political appointment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Artie's father live, in the beginning of the memoir?

2. Who gets arrested because of the work Anja does for her friend?

3. What happened to Vladek and Anja’s first son?

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

5. What are Vladek’s accommodations like on the assignment he volunteered for while being a POW?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Vladek’s experience during battle.

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

3. What explains Vladek’s decision to marry Anja and not Lucia Greenberg?

4. How was Vladek kept out of the Polish army the first time, and why did he end up going into the army the next year?

5. Describe Vladek’s relationship with Lucia Greenberg, as described in Chapter 1.

6. What tasks are Vladek and his companions given at the work assignment?

7. What animals are people depicted as, in Maus?

8. In addition to Vladek being released from the work camp during Parshas Truma, what events take place at Parshas Truma?

9. What effect does the birth of Richieu have on Vladek and Anja?

10. Describe Vladek’s dream and its meaning.

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