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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. How does Vladek characterize his attitude about being in the army?

2. After their son is born, what do Vladek and Anja hear is going on in Germany?

3. What was the outcome for the person who was arrested due to Anja's work for her friend?

4. What wedding gift does Artie’s father say his father-in-law gave him?

5. What territory is Vladek’s home in, after the division of Poland?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Artie characterize his father’s relationship with Mala, his wife?

5. How is it that Vladek comes to know English?

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

7. What news greets Vladek and Anja when they return from Czechoslovakia to Poland?

8. What consequences do Anja’s political activities have?

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

10. What tasks are Vladek and the other prisoners given after the battle?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

During the Holocaust, the Germans described the Jews as rats, a pestilence in civilized cities. What explains Art Spiegelman’s depiction of Jews as mice, Germans as cats, and Poles as pigs? What is the effect of this characterization?

Essay Topic 3

What parts of Maus do you think would be applicable to any traumatic experience? Describe the aspects of Art Spiegelman’s book that could be universalized. Which parts could not be?

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