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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 is Artie's father’s response when Artie says that he should hire someone to fix the broken item in Chapter 4?
2. What does Artie resent in “Prisoner on the Hell Planet”?
3. What does Vladek find out is the problem with his in-laws’ family’s finance during the war?
4. What does Artie’s father say happens if he does not pedal on his exercise bike?
5. Why does Artie’s father say that Anja’s Uncle Herman and Aunt Helen were lucky?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was life like among the Zylberbergs after Vladek returned from the POW camp?
2. How does Artie get out of helping his father fix the roof?
3. How do Vladek and his fellow prisoners make their way out of Srodula?
4. How did Vladek and Anja end up being deported to Auschwitz?
5. What complaint does Vladek make about Mala at the bank?
6. Where do Vladek and his fellow prisoners go after leaving Srodula?
7. What plan does Ilzecki propose to Vladek, and what is Anja’s response to this proposal?
8. How does Vladek say family relations changed in the ghetto?
9. How has the war affected the Zylberbegs morale?
10. How is the “Prisoner on the Hell Planet” different from the rest of Maus?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 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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