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

2. How does Artie’s father characterize his relationship with women?

3. Who does Anja’s friend get her in trouble with?

4. What does Vladek do when his eye doctor misdiagnoses him?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What political news do Vladek and Anja hear on their way to Czechoslovakia?

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

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

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

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

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

8. Describe the partition of Poland under the Nazis.

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How would Maus be different if it were written from a female perspective? What if it were a daughter trying to get her mother’s story? What parts of the book might remain the same? What parts of the book would be completely different?

Essay Topic 2

How would you rewrite Maus if you were to adapt it and make it your own? What part of the book would you preserve? What part would you change? Explain your motivation for the changes you would make.

Essay Topic 3

Vladek and Mala are constantly bickering, unlike Vladek and Anja, in the historical narrative. How does the present-day relationship between Vladek and Mala mirror or revise the larger themes in the historical narrative of Maus?

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