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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 business was Artie's father in before the war?

2. What events also took place on Parshas Truma?

3. How does Artie’s father describe Anja’s relationships before marriage?

4. How does Artie describe the relationship between his father and Anja?

5. Where does Vladek says that he saw the swastika for the first time?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Vladek do with Artie’s jacket?

3. What two worlds are juxtaposed in the opening scene?

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

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

6. Describe the partition of Poland under the Nazis.

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

8. What effect does the birth of Richieu have on Vladek and Anja?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

Essay Topic 2

Most of the action of Maus takes place in Poland as Vladek recounts his experiences there, but Artie is American, and the story also takes place in Rego Park. In what way is Maus an American book?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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