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

2. What task is Vladek assigned to after being captured in the war?

3. How does Artie’s father characterize Anja’s relationship with Artie?

4. What happens to disturb Vladek and Anja’s peace in 1939?

5. What is Artie's father doing while he is telling Artie his story?

Short Essay Questions

1. What doubts does Vladek have about Anja before he marries her?

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

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

4. How does Anja’s family invest in Vladek’s ambitions?

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

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

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

8. What news greets Vladek and Anja when they return from Czechoslovakia to Poland?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Would you recommend Maus? For what purposes would you recommend Maus, and what kinds of readers would you recommend it for? What other book would you recommend that would cover the same material or tell the same story in a different way?

Essay Topic 3

What parts of Maus do you think would be applicable to any traumatic experience? Describe the aspects of Art Spiegelman’s book that could be universalized. Which parts could not be?

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