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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 starts to happen in the town where Vladek and Anja live after they've had their son?
(a) Labor riots.
(b) Conscription of young men.
(c) Anti-Semitic riots.
(d) Race riots.

2. Whose story does Artie say, in Chapter 1, he wants to tell?
(a) His father’s.
(b) His own.
(c) His mother’s.
(d) The Holocaust’s.

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

4. How does Artie’s father characterize his relationship with women?
(a) He says that he was deeply committed to one girl at a time.
(b) He says that he often toyed with them.
(c) He says that was quite shy.
(d) He says they were seeking him out.

5. How does Artie’s father describe Anja’s reaction after giving birth?
(a) She was proud.
(b) She was delighted.
(c) She was depressed.
(d) She was sick.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Artie's father doing while he is telling Artie his story?

3. When did the war begin for Vladek?

4. Who does Anja’s friend get her in trouble with?

5. What is Artie's father doing when Artie sees him again in Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How does Vladek get back to Sosnowiec?

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

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

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

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