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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 Anja disagree with Vladek about, after they leave Mrs. Motonowa's house?

2. After leaving Mrs. Motonowa’s house, where do Vladek and Anja consider fleeing to?

3. What does Artie say overwhelms him at his mother’s funeral?

4. What new tool has Artie brought with him to interview his father?

5. How does Art Spiegelman depict the Jews pretending to be Poles?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Artie learn from Vladek about Anja’s journals?

2. What plan does Ilzecki propose to Vladek, and what is Anja’s response to this proposal?

3. What plans do Vladek and Anja make for Richieu, and what happens to him?

4. Describe Vladek and Anja’s disguises when they return to Sosnowiec.

5. What does Vladek find when he goes out to reconnoitre Sosonwiec while Anja hides?

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

7. How do Vladek and his fellow prisoners make their way out of Srodula?

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

9. How is the “Prisoner on the Hell Planet” different from the rest of Maus?

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

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

Use this book as a meditation on the value of a five-star rating system. Is a five-star system sufficient to a book like this? Would you need to have sub-topics for the rating system, for plot, characterization, language, etc? What other sub-topics would you need? What value or importance gets lost in a five-star scale? Design a scale that would be better for this book.

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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