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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 business does Vladek say he started after 1942?
(a) Trading gold and silver.
(b) Smuggling refugees out of Poland.
(c) Selling forged papers.
(d) Publishing resistance tracts.

2. Where did Vladek and Anja go from Sosnowiec?
(a) Auschwitz.
(b) A ghetto.
(c) Beilsko.
(d) Czechoslovakia.

3. What does Vladek give to Mrs. Motonowa for her protection?
(a) Attention.
(b) Protection from roving soldiers.
(c) Money.
(d) Work.

4. What suggestion does Artie make to his father about his father’ relationship with Mala?
(a) To see a marriage counselor.
(b) To give her more money to spend.
(c) To listen.
(d) To take her out to dinner.

5. Where does Vladek send Miloch and his wife and child?
(a) To Sosnowiec.
(b) To Hungary
(c) To the police.
(d) To Mrs. Motonowa’s.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Vladek hide his money from his in-laws?

2. What happens when Vladek and Anja are followed after leaving Mrs. Motonowa’s house?

3. Who causes Vladek and Anja to be arrested?

4. After leaving Mrs. Motonowa’s house, where do Vladek and Anja consider fleeing to?

5. Where does Vladek say he made a bunker in the second house he lived in at Srodula?

Short Essay Questions

1. What plan does Ilzecki propose to Vladek, and what is Anja’s response to this proposal?

2. How do Vladek and his fellow prisoners make their way out of Srodula?

3. Where do Vladek and Anja stay when they return to Sosnowiec?

4. What convinces Vladek and Anja to try to flee to Hungary?

5. Where does Vladek say he worked in Sosnowiec?

6. What does Artie learn from Vladek about Anja’s journals?

7. Why is Mala at her wit’s end in the beginning of Chapter 6?

8. How is the “Prisoner on the Hell Planet” different from the rest of Maus?

9. What does Vladek learn from Kahum Cohn’s example?

10. What was life like among the Zylberbergs after Vladek returned from the POW camp?

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