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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 is Anja’s involvement with her friend she "always ran to see" even after she and Vladek were married?
2. What does Vladek say was Anja’s response to his strong reaction to someone getting arrested due to the work she was doing for her friend during the war?
3. What happened to Vladek and Anja’s first son?
4. What was Vladek’s chess set made of?
5. How does Vladek characterize his attitude about being in the army?
Short Essay Questions
1. What tasks are Vladek and his companions given at the work assignment?
2. What consequences do Anja’s political activities have?
3. What does Vladek do with Artie’s jacket?
4. What two worlds are juxtaposed in the opening scene?
5. 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?
6. How is it that Vladek comes to know English?
7. How does Anja’s family invest in Vladek’s ambitions?
8. What is life like at the sanitarium for Vladek and Anja?
9. What is Anja’s involvement in the politics in Czechoslovakia?
10. What animals are people depicted as, in Maus?
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
When is Maus most itself? What is its characteristic passage, or moment? What makes that moment or passage the most representative of the book as a whole? Are there any places where the book seems to depart from its typical self, as if to become a different book?
Essay Topic 3
How would you rewrite Maus if you were to adapt it and make it your own? What part of the book would you preserve? What part would you change? Explain your motivation for the changes you would make.
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