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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 the age difference between Artie's father and Anja?

2. How often do Vladek and Anja see each other once Vladek’s father-in-law’s business plans for Vladek come through?

3. When did the war begin for Vladek?

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

5. What happened in the Bielsko factory while Vladek and Anja were away?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 1, how does Artie characterize his relationship with his father?

2. Describe Vladek’s dream and its meaning.

3. In addition to Vladek being released from the work camp during Parshas Truma, what events take place at Parshas Truma?

4. Describe the partition of Poland under the Nazis.

5. Describe Vladek’s experience during battle.

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

7. What explains Vladek’s decision to marry Anja and not Lucia Greenberg?

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

9. How does Artie’s father characterize himself in the time before he met Anja?

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

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 2

Write an evaluative review of Maus. What is this book’s place in culture? What are its uses? What are its limitations?

Essay Topic 3

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

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