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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Artie say, in Chpater 1, that he wants to gather this information about Anja?
(a) He says that he won’t know the story until he hears it.
(b) He says that he wants to know his father better.
(c) He says that he wants to tell a personal story, not a story about the Holocaust.
(d) He says that it makes his father’s story more human.

2. What does Vladek dream will happen at Parshas Truma?
(a) He will be killed.
(b) He will get word to his family.
(c) He will be released.
(d) His condition in the camp will improve.

3. How does Artie’s father describe Anja’s reaction after giving birth?
(a) She was sick.
(b) She was proud.
(c) She was depressed.
(d) She was delighted.

4. What is Vladek and Anja’s reaction to Vladek being drafted?
(a) Vladek and Anja pack and leave for America.
(b) Vladek reports, and Anja goes to live with a neighbor.
(c) Vladek reports, and Anja returns to her parents’.
(d) Vladek is taken away, and Anja runs the factory.

5. What does Vladek do when his eye doctor misdiagnoses him?
(a) He reports the doctor to his superior.
(b) He politely corrects the mistake.
(c) He does not say anything.
(d) He yells at the doctor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What effect did Vladek’s shooting have in the war, during the battle before he was captured?

2. Whose story does Artie say, in Chapter 1, he wants to tell?

3. How did Vladek’s father try to keep him out of the army?

4. What happened in the Bielsko factory while Vladek and Anja were away?

5. Where does Vladek says that he saw the swastika for the first time?

Short Essay Questions

1. What doubts does Vladek have about Artie’s comic book idea?

2. Describe the partition of Poland under the Nazis.

3. What explains Vladek’s decision to marry Anja and not Lucia Greenberg?

4. How does Artie’s father characterize himself in the time before he met Anja?

5. What effect does the birth of Richieu have on Vladek and Anja?

6. Describe Vladek’s experience during battle.

7. What animals are people depicted as, in Maus?

8. What two worlds are juxtaposed in the opening scene?

9. What is Anja’s involvement in the politics in Czechoslovakia?

10. What problems does Artie's father have with his eyes?

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