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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 tools are Vladek and his companions given to work with on his work detail?

2. What medical condition does Artie's father have?

3. Where does Artie’s father say he lived during the Great War?

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

5. How does Artie’s father characterize the situation for the Jews in Germany in 1937?

Short Essay Questions

1. In addition to Vladek being released from the work camp during Parshas Truma, what events take place at Parshas Truma?

2. Describe Vladek’s accommodations at the POW camp.

3. Describe Vladek’s relationship with Lucia Greenberg, as described in Chapter 1.

4. Describe the partition of Poland under the Nazis.

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

6. In Chapter 1, how does Artie characterize his relationship with his father?

7. What is life like at the sanitarium for Vladek and Anja?

8. How does Anja’s family invest in Vladek’s ambitions?

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

10. What doubts does Vladek have about Anja before he marries her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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

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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