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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. Where were Vladek and Anja arrested?

2. Who does Vladek run into on Modrezejowska Street?

3. What suggestion does Artie make to his father about his father’ relationship with Mala?

4. What convinces Vladek to flee from Poland?

5. Why does Artie’s father say that Anja’s Uncle Herman and Aunt Helen were lucky?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Artie’s response to Mala’s complaints in Chapter 6?

2. What complaint does Vladek make about Mala at the bank?

3. Describe Vladek’s first business deal after returning from the POW camp.

4. How do Vladek and Anja end up staying with Mrs. Motonowa?

5. What does Vladek learn from Kahum Cohn’s example?

6. How does Vladek say family relations changed in the ghetto?

7. What was life like among the Zylberbergs after Vladek returned from the POW camp?

8. How does Artie characterize his father’s attitude toward money in the beginning of Chapter 4?

9. How does Vladek acquire new skills in Sosnowiec?

10. How does Art Spiegelman include Maus within the book itself?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the most important plot points in Maus. What is at stake in each of these moments? What possibilities do these moments present, and how are those possibilities channeled into specific actions or events? How does the plot chart its course among other alternative or possible plots?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

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