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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. What is Vladek and Anja’s reaction to Vladek being drafted?
(a) Vladek reports, and Anja goes to live with a neighbor.
(b) Vladek is taken away, and Anja runs the factory.
(c) Vladek reports, and Anja returns to her parents’.
(d) Vladek and Anja pack and leave for America.

2. When did Vladek first serve in the army?
(a) At 18.
(b) At 21.
(c) At 24.
(d) At 16.

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

4. How does Artie characterize his father’s relationship with Mala?
(a) Indifferent.
(b) Supportive.
(c) Affectionate.
(d) Critical.

5. 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 was ready to break off his marriage.
(b) He wanted to participate in the conspiracies.
(c) He wanted Anja to repair the damage she’d done.
(d) He wanted to go to America.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Artie say was his father’s policy regarding food?

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

3. What does Vladek do to get back in touch with Anja after she stopped contacting him?

4. What tools are Vladek and his companions given to work with on his work detail?

5. When were Vladek and Anja married?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What news greets Vladek and Anja when they return from Czechoslovakia to Poland?

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

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

5. What happens to Vladek and Anja in 1939?

6. What two worlds are juxtaposed in the opening scene?

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

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

9. Describe Vladek’s dream and its meaning.

10. Describe the partition of Poland under the Nazis.

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