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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 gets arrested because of the work Anja does for her friend?

2. What is Vladek and Anja’s reaction to Vladek being drafted?

3. What reason does Artie's father give for what he is doing in Chapter 2?

4. What events also took place on Parshas Truma?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Vladek get back to Sosnowiec?

2. What happens to Vladek and Anja in 1939?

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

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

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

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

7. Describe Vladek’s experience during battle.

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

9. Describe the partition of Poland under the Nazis.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Write an evaluative review of Maus. What is this book’s place in culture? What are its uses? What are its limitations?

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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