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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 does Vladek tell the smugglers?
2. What does Artie’s father say happens if he does not pedal on his exercise bike?
3. What were Anja’s last words to Artie?
4. Where does Vladek take refuge as Srodula is liquidated?
5. Where does Vladek ride when he takes the street car into town?
Short Essay Questions
1. What convinces Vladek and Anja to try to flee to Hungary?
2. Describe Vladek and Anja’s disguises when they return to Sosnowiec.
3. How do Vladek and his fellow prisoners make their way out of Srodula?
4. How does Artie get out of helping his father fix the roof?
5. What kind of reception do Vladek and Anja get when they inquire with Mrs. Kawka about hiding with her?
6. What plans do Vladek and Anja make for Richieu, and what happens to him?
7. Describe Vladek’s first business deal after returning from the POW camp.
8. How did Vladek and Anja end up being deported to Auschwitz?
9. Why is Mala at her wit’s end in the beginning of Chapter 6?
10. What does Artie learn from Vladek about Anja’s journals?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Who is the audience for Maus? What is the ideal reader for Maus likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Assess the ending of Maus. What is your interpretation of the conclusion? What is its effect on you. What effect do you think Art Spiegelman intended it to have? Using examples from the text, describe your expectations for the conclusion of the novel.
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