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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 complication was there when Art Spiegelman was born?
2. How does Artie's father surprise Anja on their first date?
3. What starts to happen in the town where Vladek and Anja live after they've had their son?
4. What was the outcome for the person who was arrested due to Anja's work for her friend?
5. What does Vladek do when his eye doctor misdiagnoses him?
Short Essay Questions
1. What political news do Vladek and Anja hear on their way to Czechoslovakia?
2. What is life like at the sanitarium for Vladek and Anja?
3. How is it that Vladek comes to know English?
4. What animals are people depicted as, in Maus?
5. Describe the partition of Poland under the Nazis.
6. What news greets Vladek and Anja when they return from Czechoslovakia to Poland?
7. What is Anja’s involvement in the politics in Czechoslovakia?
8. Describe Vladek’s experience during battle.
9. What happens to Vladek and Anja in 1939?
10. How does Anja’s family invest in Vladek’s ambitions?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Use this book as a meditation on the value of a five-star rating system. Is a five-star system sufficient to a book like this? Would you need to have sub-topics for the rating system, for plot, characterization, language, etc? What other sub-topics would you need? What value or importance gets lost in a five-star scale? Design a scale that would be better for this book.
Essay Topic 2
Evaluate your own reading of Maus—did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.
Essay Topic 3
Write a character sketch of the author based on his style and content. What values does he hold dear? What are his hopes and fears? What kind of person do you think he is? Anchor your sketch in passages in the book.
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