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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. As related in Chapter 6, how does Vladek help his fellow prisoners?

2. Where does Vladek send Miloch and his wife and child?

3. What is Vladek doing when Artie sees him next in Chapter 5?

4. How does Vladek characterize the head of his ghetto?

5. What does Artie say is Vladek’s relationship with Artie’s comic books?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the contents of the “Prisoner on the Hell Planet” comic strip.

2. Where does Vladek say he worked in Sosnowiec?

3. Why is Mala at her wit’s end in the beginning of Chapter 6?

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

5. What convinces Vladek and Anja to try to flee to Hungary?

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

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

8. How has the war affected the Zylberbegs morale?

9. How does Artie get out of helping his father fix the roof?

10. Where do Vladek and Anja stay when they return to Sosnowiec?

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

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 3

What character traits allow Vladek and Anja to survive the Holocaust? What character traits led others to their deaths? Was there a formula for surviving the Holocaust, or was it merely luck, who survived and who did not?

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