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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 describe the relationship between his father and Anja?
(a) They are a good team.
(b) They are like brother and sister.
(c) They don’t get along.
(d) They are affectionate like lovers.

2. What does Vladek do when his eye doctor misdiagnoses him?
(a) He does not say anything.
(b) He reports the doctor to his superior.
(c) He yells at the doctor.
(d) He politely corrects the mistake.

3. What does Anja’s teacher tell Artie's father tell about Anja?
(a) He had hoped to marry her himself.
(b) He has never had a student as sensitive and intelligent as her.
(c) He has never seen anyone work as hard as Anja worked.
(d) He has never known someone so refined and cultured as her.

4. Where does Artie's father live, in the beginning of the memoir?
(a) Los Angeles, CA.
(b) Warsaw, Poland.
(c) Berlin, Germany.
(d) Rego Park, NY.

5. What happened in the Bielsko factory while Vladek and Anja were away?
(a) There was a fire.
(b) There were labor riots
(c) It was robbed.
(d) There was a murder.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vladek dream will happen at Parshas Truma?

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

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

4. What are the pills for, that Anja has in her bureau?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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 two worlds are juxtaposed in the opening scene?

6. What happens to Vladek and Anja in 1939?

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

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

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

10. What political news do Vladek and Anja hear on their way to Czechoslovakia?

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