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

2. How does Vladek characterize his attitude about being in the army?
(a) He says that he didn’t want to shoot anyone, so he shot blindly.
(b) He was opposed to violence in any form.
(c) He was willing to kill Germans if it kept Poland free.
(d) He was anxious to prove himself a true Pole.

3. What objection does Artie’s father make about the material Artie is gathering?
(a) He says that it violates Anja’s memory.
(b) He says that it is private.
(c) He says that it is irrelevant.
(d) He says that it has nothing to do with Hitler.

4. What wedding gift does Artie’s father say his father-in-law gave him?
(a) A gold watch.
(b) Investments.
(c) A gold ring.
(d) An inscribed copy of the Torah.

5. What complication was there when Art Spiegelman was born?
(a) He was almost strangulated by the umbilical cord.
(b) He was premature.
(c) He was sickly.
(d) He was a breach birth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Artie's father chide him with, while he is telling Artie stories?

2. How does Vladek insult Artie without meaning to?

3. How does Artie’s father characterize the situation for the Jews in Germany in 1937?

4. What does Vladek do when his eye doctor misdiagnoses him?

5. What is the age difference between Artie's father and Anja?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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. What is life like at the sanitarium for Vladek and Anja?

6. How does Vladek get back to Sosnowiec?

7. What happens to Vladek and Anja in 1939?

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

9. What is Anja’s involvement in the politics in Czechoslovakia?

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

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