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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 does Vladek say was his reaction to someone getting arrested because of the work Anja did for her friend during the war time?

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

4. What effect did Vladek’s shooting have in the war, during the battle before he was captured?

5. Whose story does Artie say, in Chapter 1, he wants to tell?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Describe the partition of Poland under the Nazis.

8. What problems does Artie's father have with his eyes?

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

10. How does Vladek get back to Sosnowiec?

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

Assess the ending of Maus. What is your interpretation of the conclusion? What is its effect on you. What effect do you think Art Spiegelman intended it to have? Using examples from the text, describe your expectations for the conclusion of the novel.

Essay Topic 3

Who is the audience for Maus? What is the ideal reader for Maus likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?

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