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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. How does Art Spiegelman depict the Jews pretending to be Poles?
(a) He draws them with pig masks over their mouse faces.
(b) He draws them as pigs.
(c) He draws them as dogs.
(d) He draws them in different clothes.

2. What new tool has Artie brought with him to interview his father?
(a) A new fountain pen.
(b) A typewriter.
(c) A tape recorder.
(d) An assistant.

3. In Chapter 4, what does Artie urge his father to do, regarding his story?
(a) Keep his story chronologically straight.
(b) Speed up his narration.
(c) Tell him the history of each of the people he mentions.
(d) Tell him every detail.

4. How does Vladek characterize the head of his ghetto?
(a) A man who took care of his Jews.
(b) A man who thought only of himself.
(c) A man who wanted to be a king.
(d) A man who only took care of his own family.

5. Where does Vladek get a work card?
(a) At a tailor’s shop.
(b) At a tin shop.
(c) At a bakery.
(d) At a textile factory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Artie say is his mission in writing about his father?

2. What does Vladek tell the smugglers?

3. What saves Vladek when he has a heart attack on the sidewalk?

4. What does Vladek find out is the problem with his in-laws’ family’s finance during the war?

5. What does Artie's father want him to fix, when Artie shows up at the beginning of Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the “Prisoner on the Hell Planet” different from the rest of Maus?

2. What plan does Ilzecki propose to Vladek, and what is Anja’s response to this proposal?

3. Describe the contents of the “Prisoner on the Hell Planet” comic strip.

4. How does Ilzecki save Vladek’s life?

5. How does Artie characterize his father’s attitude toward money in the beginning of Chapter 4?

6. Describe Vladek and Anja’s disguises when they return to Sosnowiec.

7. Why is Mala at her wit’s end in the beginning of Chapter 6?

8. How does Art Spiegelman include Maus within the book itself?

9. Where do Vladek and his fellow prisoners go after leaving Srodula?

10. What does Vladek find when he goes out to reconnoitre Sosonwiec while Anja hides?

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