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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 complaint does Vladek’s mother-in-law make about her soup?
(a) She cannot afford to use as much fuel as it takes to cook it right.
(b) She cannot make as much of as she would like.
(c) She can’t get the ingredients she needs.
(d) She can’t remember the recipe.

2. How does Vladek avoid trouble at Modrezejowska Street?
(a) He hides in a sewer.
(b) He disappears into a building.
(c) He pretends to be a workman.
(d) He bribes an officer.

3. Why do the Germans leave Vladek’s mother-in-law’s nice bedroom set alone when they come to plunder the household?
(a) They do not take it because she is ill.
(b) Vladek’s father-in-law keeps the soldiers from seeing that bedroom.
(c) Vladek’s family hides the bedroom set.
(d) Vladek’s father-in-law bribes them.

4. Where did Mala’s mother hide, that she survived living in the ghetto?
(a) In a crawlspace.
(b) Inside a hidden closet.
(c) In a coal cellar.
(d) In an abandoned factory.

5. What does Vladek find out is the problem with his in-laws’ family’s finance during the war?
(a) They have to pay so much to bribe German soldiers that there is hardly enough to live on.
(b) Their taxes have been raised so high that they are making textiles at a loss.
(c) They have lost their factories, but they are still living like they did before the war.
(d) The cost of things has risen so high that they cannot maintain their lifestyle.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Vladek characterize the head of his ghetto?

2. What does Artie say, in Chapter 6, bothers him about his father?

3. What suggestion does Artie make to his father about his father’ relationship with Mala?

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

5. What does the individual whom Vladek runs into on Modrezejowska Street give him?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Ilzecki save Vladek’s life?

3. What plans do Vladek and Anja make for Richieu, and what happens to him?

4. How does Artie characterize his father’s attitude toward money in the beginning of Chapter 4?

5. Who is Haskel, and what is his position in the ghetto?

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

7. How are Vladek and his fellow prisoners caught in their bunker?

8. Where do Vladek and his fellow prisoners go after leaving Srodula?

9. How did Vladek and Anja end up being deported to Auschwitz?

10. Describe Vladek’s first business deal after returning from the POW camp.

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