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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. Who visits Vladek before he moves to Anja’s town?

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

3. What wedding gift does Artie’s father say his father-in-law gave him?

4. Where was Vladek stationed when he was in the Polish army?

5. What is the age difference between Artie's father and Anja?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Vladek’s experience during battle.

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

4. How does Vladek get back to Sosnowiec?

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

6. Describe the partition of Poland under the Nazis.

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

8. Describe Vladek’s health when Artie sees him again at the beginning of Chapter 2.

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

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Evaluate your own reading of Maus—did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the importance of Artie's father and Artie's mother in Maus. How are they each important, and what is the difference between their importance in Artie’s eyes?

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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