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At the P.O.W. camp, Vladek stands out from the other prisoners in that he
A. continues to pray, when others have forsaken religion.
B. exercises even when hungry and bathes even when cold.
C. turns his back on God and prayer, while others become more devout.
D. reports fellow Jews who are lax in their work. |
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Vladek was especially strict about and adamant that the young Artie should
A. always faithfully observe the Saturday of Parshas Truma.
B. always find ways to capitalize on his schoolmates’ weak points.
C. always be the first to volunteer when a new opportunity was presented.
D. always eat everything on his plate. |
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After killing Jan, a German soldier who was trying to surrender, Vladek is
A. wracked with guilt and tortured by nightmares.
B. satisfied that at least he contributed something to the war effort.
C. electrified and moved by a deep desire to spill more German blood.
D. depressed with the knowledge that the war will claim so many more
innocent lives. |
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Anja first begins to voice her suicidal feelings
A. just after Richieu’s birth.
B. just after Vladek is drafted.
C. just after the Zylberbergs’ factory is robbed.
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As a P.O.W., Vladek admires the Germans’ gift for
A. choosing their commanders well.
B. recycling old things rather than buying new ones.
C. doing everything in an organized and systematic manner.
D. persuading the gentile Poles to expose and betray the Jewish ones. |
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When Vladek returns from the P.O.W. camp, he finds that Jewish businesses have
A. all gone bankrupt.
B. all been taken over by Aryan management.
C. all been burned to the ground.
D. all been looted by rioting Germans. |
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The fact that Vladek has chocolate to give to Orbach’s daughters is a good
example of his
A. tendency to always put others’ comfort before his own.
B. facility at bribing German guards for rare goods.
C. commitment to remaining lean and physically fit by avoiding sweets.
D. commitment to always saving something for the future, “just in case.” |
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In Prisoner on the Hell Planet the “prisoner” of the title refers to
A. Artie.
B. Anja.
C. Vladek.
D. Mala. |
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At one point, Vladek gives up most of his off-the-record business in order to
work, for almost no money, at a carpentry shop in order to
A. be closer to Lolek and Anja’s father, who also work there.
B. learn carpentry skills that might be useful later.
C. secure the official work paper he needs for protection.
D. smuggle wood and nails with which to build bunkers out of the shop. |
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Artie is surprised to find out that Vladek read Prisoner on the Hell Planet because
A. it is written in English, and while Vladek speaks the language passably, he
cannot read it.
B. Vladek never reads comics.
C. Vladek has shown no interest in Artie’s feelings about Anja’s death.
D. Vladek hates to be reminded of Anja and never thinks of her anymore. |
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While Anja refused to let Ilzecki take Richieu into hiding, she lets Persis do so
because
A. Persis is Wolfe’s uncle, so Richieu will be kept with family, whatever
happens.
B. she trusts Persis and had doubts about Ilzecki’s motives.
C. Persis is wealthy and can provide better care for Richieu than Ilzecki could
have.
D. the situation has gotten so bad that she finally feels she has no choice but
to let Richieu be taken from her into hiding. |
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Richieu is ultimately killed
A. by a German soldier who swings Richieu by his feet, bashing the boy’s
head against a wall.
B. in the ovens at Auschwitz.
C. in the gas chambers at Auschwitz.
D. by the Jewish woman who is hiding him from the Nazis. |
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Haskel Spiegelman charges his first cousin, Vladek, for assistance in slipping past
the Nazis. Vladek explains that this was because
A. during the Holocaust, it was “every man for himself,” and family ties no
longer meant much.
B. Haskel had always envied Vladek for Vladek’s entrepreneurial success
and chose this opportunity to lord his status over Vladek.
C. Haskel was a non-religious Jew and, therefore—according to Vladek—
had no morals.
D. Vladek had refused to hire Haskel on at his textiles factory before the
Nazis rose to power. |
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Lolek decides not to hide in the bunker behind the tunnel of shoes because
A. he is a skilled worker and has just been hired by the Germans to work at
Auschwitz.
B. he is sick of having to hide all the time.
C. he has a premonition that the tunnel will not hold.
D. he has a premonition that the war will end soon. |
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While Spiegelman shows both Anja and Vladek wearing “Pole”—or pig—masks
as they sneak towards Sosnowiec, he represents Anja’s greater difficulty in
concealing her Jewish features by
A. drawing her mask slipping halfway off her face.
B. drawing a mouse tail that trails out from beneath her coat.
C. drawing a target on her back.
D. drawing Vladek in shadow and putting a “spotlight” on Anja. |
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As an immediate result of his daring to answer a stranger on the street in Hebrew,
Vladek
A. learns what has become of his son, Richieu.
B. finds out where Janina, Richieu’s former governess, is living.
C. finds out that Sosnowiec has become a safe haven for Jews.
D. learns the location of a black market where he can purchase food. |
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Artie calls Vladek a “murderer” upon learning that Vladek
A. burned Anja’s diaries.
B. encouraged Anja to kill herself rather than suffer.
C. ultimately buried the Jew who exposed Vladek’s hiding place.
D. watched others die on the truck to Auschwitz rather than share his food. |
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Vladek ensures that Artie will return his phone call by leaving a message to the
effect that
A. he [Vladek] has found a few stray pages of Anja’s diary.
B. Mala has left him and taken all of his money.
C. he has suffered a heart attack.
D. he is desperately eager to finish telling Artie his story. |
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“Zyklon B” is
A. the name of the crew assigned to “black work” in Auschwitz.
B. the nickname of Anja’s cruel and spiteful kapo.
C. the name of the gas used in the chambers at Auschwitz.
D. the name of Vladek’s block of barracks in Auschwitz. |
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On numerous occasions, Vladek is able to trade his knowledge of ________ for
small favors from those in power.
A. engineering
B. English
C. weaponry
D. French |
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Francoise is disgusted by Vladek’s
A. prejudice against a black hitchhiker.
B. prejudice against his Catholic neighbors.
C. contempt for those too weak to survive the camps.
D. suggestion that Mala is overweight. |
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In Dachau, Vladek contracts
A. tuberculosis.
B. polio.
C. malaria.
D. typhus. |
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The Poles who betrayed Vladek after offering to smuggle him into Hungary end
up
A. in Auschwitz.
B. paying Vladek for language lessons.
C. as Vladek’s kapos.
D. as prisoners of the Allies when the war ends. |
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In Auschwitz, Mandelbaum prays for
A. a quick death.
B. a bite of sausage.
C. a piece of string and a shoe that fits.
D. the lives of his sons. |
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When Vladek first sees Anja at Birkenau after their long separation, he rebukes
her for
A. wasting scraps of food on her friends.
B. allowing her muscles to atrophy by not exercising.
C. going into too much personal detail in her letters.
D. continuing to dwell on Richieu’s death. |
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Vladek refers to the process of procuring food by making underground deals and
exchanges as ___________ food.
A. “manipulating”
B. “organizing”
C. “orchestrating”
D. “fabricating” |
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In Maus II, Spiegelman portrays himself as
A. a mouse in a pig mask.
B. a mouse in a prison uniform.
C. a man in a mouse mask.
D. a man in a prison uniform. |
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At Auschwitz, “black work” is the name for
A. shoveling coal into the ovens.
B. emptying ash from the ovens.
C. hard physical labor performed outdoors.
D. cleaning out the toilets in the barracks. |
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Prisoners at Dachau are denied soup if
A. they are deemed strong enough to survive without it.
B. their clothes contain lice.
C. they are not fully and neatly dressed.
D. they complain of the cold. |
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Vladek is reluctant to move to America after the war because
A. he is afraid to try new things.
B. he has built up an impressive business in Sweden.
C. many Germans whose homes were bombed are also moving to America.
D. he believes the move will be bad for Anja’s fragile physical and mental
health. |
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According to the elderly Vladek, the food one was officially given at Auschwitz
was
A. surprisingly sufficient if one was not accustomed to overindulging.
B. more satisfying than the food Mala cooks for him now.
C. more nutritious than the food most Americans eat today.
D. just enough to make one die more slowly. |
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