Maus II 3 & 4 Quiz

Vladek and a group of six others had planned to stay behind and hide in Auschwitz in an attic when the SS moved out all of the prisoners. Why did they abandon this plan?

• The SS guards caught them and forced them to leave

• Another prisoner told on them in exchange for his life

• One of the prisoners heard a rumor that the SS were going to bomb and burn the camp after it was emptied

• They were never able to find civilian clothes

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What happened to the 8 or 9 prisoners that bribed the guards to let them run off during the death march?

• They were hunted down by the guard’s dogs

• They were shot anyway

• They were able to escape

• They were too weak to run away

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Which of the following options is NOT one of the ways that helped Vladek survive in the weeks he had to spend packed in the cattle car

• He ate snow off the roof of the train

• He hung his blanket up on the roof so he was able to breathe better

• He traded some of the snow he could reach to get some sugar

• He stabbed the legs of his fellow prisoners to make more room

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Why did Artie and Francoise not want to go into the grocery store with Vladek?

• They were worried he would make them pay

• They needed a break from his complaining about not having Mala

• They were embarrassed because Vladek was trying to return half-used food items

• They wanted to avoid being asked about their summer plans

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Where did Vladek say his troubles really began?

• In Dachau

• In Auschwitz

• On the death march

• On the cattle car

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Why did Vladek continually try to make the infection on his hand worse?

• He wanted the guards to take pity on him and give him more soup

• He thought if he was injured the guards would excuse him from work

• He wanted to keep the other prisoners away from him

• He wanted to get sent to the infirmary because it had better conditions

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Why did Vladek trade chocolate for a shirt?

• So he could not smell so bad

• So he could clean the shirt of lice and get soup

• So he could clean the shirt and heal his infection

• None of the above

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What did Vladek almost die from in Dachau?

• Typhus

• Starvation

• A beating

• His hand infection

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How did Vladek get sent out of the camp with the other healthy prisoners to be exchanged at the Swiss border?

• He bribed the guards so they turned the other way

• He had only pretending to have Typhus to go to the infirmary

• He was able to sneak onto the train at night without anyone noticing

• He had given two fellow prisoners bread and they helped him stand

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What happened to Vladek and the other prisoners when they got off the second train?

• They were traded to the Americans at the Swiss border

• They were told they had ten seconds to run away or be killed

• They were rounded up and taken to the woods by a lake

• They were put back into a concentration camp

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