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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Vladek’s accommodations in the POW camp?

2. What task is Vladek given after being taken to a camp during the war?

3. What does Anja’s closet tell Vladek about her character?

4. What does Vladek do when his eye doctor misdiagnoses him?

5. How was Vladek’s brother Marcus kept out of the army?

Short Essay Questions

1. What consequences do Anja’s political activities have?

2. What two worlds are juxtaposed in the opening scene?

3. Describe Vladek’s accommodations at the POW camp.

4. Describe Vladek’s experience during battle.

5. What animals are people depicted as, in Maus?

6. How was Vladek kept out of the Polish army the first time, and why did he end up going into the army the next year?

7. What is life like at the sanitarium for Vladek and Anja?

8. What does Vladek do with Artie’s jacket?

9. How does Anja’s family invest in Vladek’s ambitions?

10. What tasks are Vladek and his companions given at the work assignment?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Assess the ending of Maus. What is your interpretation of the conclusion? What is its effect on you. What effect do you think Art Spiegelman intended it to have? Using examples from the text, describe your expectations for the conclusion of the novel.

Essay Topic 2

What character traits allow Vladek and Anja to survive the Holocaust? What character traits led others to their deaths? Was there a formula for surviving the Holocaust, or was it merely luck, who survived and who did not?

Essay Topic 3

What parts of Maus do you think would be applicable to any traumatic experience? Describe the aspects of Art Spiegelman’s book that could be universalized. Which parts could not be?

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