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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. What are Vladek’s accommodations in the POW camp?
(a) Unheated tents.
(b) Dormitories.
(c) Heated cabins.
(d) Unheated shacks.

2. Where does Artie's father live, in the beginning of the memoir?
(a) Rego Park, NY.
(b) Berlin, Germany.
(c) Los Angeles, CA.
(d) Warsaw, Poland.

3. What are Vladek’s accommodations like on the assignment he volunteered for while being a POW?
(a) The same as the POW camp.
(b) More comfortable, but less safe than the POW camp.
(c) Much more comfortable than the POW camp.
(d) Worse than the POW camp.

4. What does Anja’s closet tell Vladek about her character?
(a) She keeps things neat.
(b) She hides her messes.
(c) She has expensive tastes.
(d) She is not very tidy.

5. Where does Vladek says that he saw the swastika for the first time?
(a) Germany.
(b) Poland.
(c) Czechoslovakia.
(d) Belgium.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the friend Anja “always ran to see” even after she and Vladek were married?

2. How does Vladek keep from being beaten when he is taken captive in the war?

3. What period is covered by Chapter 1?

4. What experience does Art Spiegelman’s father contrast with Art’s experience of his friends skating away when his skate broke?

5. How does Artie’s father describe Anja’s reaction after giving birth?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Artie characterize his father’s relationship with Mala, his wife?

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

3. Describe Vladek’s health when Artie sees him again at the beginning of Chapter 2.

4. What is Anja’s involvement in the politics in Czechoslovakia?

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

6. What tasks are Vladek and the other prisoners given after the battle?

7. Describe Vladek’s dream and its meaning.

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

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

10. How is it that Vladek comes to know English?

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