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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. Why does Artie’s father say that Anja’s Uncle Herman and Aunt Helen were lucky?
(a) The could were in England when the war began.
(b) They were friends with some powerful Nazis.
(c) They had passed as Germans and were saved from the fighting.
(d) They were in New York when the war started.

2. What ultimately happened to Richieu?
(a) He was poisoned when the Germans liquidated the ghetto where he was staying.
(b) He made his way to free territory, and survived the war.
(c) He was deported to Auschwitz and died there.
(d) He was sent to a work camp, and died of starvation right before the war ended.

3. How does Mrs. Motonowa get Vladek and Anja to her house?
(a) She poses as his wife, and Anja as their governess.
(b) She smuggles them in barrels.
(c) She hides them in her cart beneath the hay.
(d) She pretends to be escorting them to the prison camps.

4. What question is Vladek forced to answer when a man stumbles upon the bunker he has made?
(a) Whether to flee.
(b) Whether to trust him.
(c) Whether to help him.
(d) Whether to report him to the Germans.

5. Why do Vladek and Anja have to leave Mrs. Motonowa’s house?
(a) Someone had reported them living there.
(b) The Gestapo were searching every house.
(c) The Gestapo searched her goods in the market.
(d) Vladek could not pay any longer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Vladek’s fellow prisoners pay him with, for his help?

2. What does Vladek make a sketch of, for Artie in Chapter 5?

3. Under what condition does Vladek say his cousin risked helping him at Srodula?

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

5. How had Artie’s mother killed herself?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Vladek and Anja’s disguises when they return to Sosnowiec.

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

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

4. How does Artie get out of helping his father fix the roof?

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

6. Where does Vladek say he worked in Sosnowiec?

7. How does Ilzecki save Vladek’s life?

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

9. What kind of reception do Vladek and Anja get when they inquire with Mrs. Kawka about hiding with her?

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

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