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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 is the punishment for even minor violations of laws during the war?
2. What accusation does Artie make to his father when he finds out that Vladek had destroyed Anja’s journals?
3. Why do the Germans leave Vladek’s mother-in-law’s nice bedroom set alone when they come to plunder the household?
4. What do Vladek’s fellow prisoners pay him with, for his help?
5. Why do Vladek and Anja have to leave Mrs. Motonowa’s house?
Short Essay Questions
1. What plans do Vladek and Anja make for Richieu, and what happens to him?
2. How do Vladek and his fellow prisoners make their way out of Srodula?
3. How do Vladek and Anja end up staying with Mrs. Motonowa?
4. What plan does Ilzecki propose to Vladek, and what is Anja’s response to this proposal?
5. How does Artie get out of helping his father fix the roof?
6. Where do Vladek and his fellow prisoners go after leaving Srodula?
7. How are Vladek and his fellow prisoners caught in their bunker?
8. What does Vladek learn from Kahum Cohn’s example?
9. How does Art Spiegelman include Maus within the book itself?
10. Why is Mala at her wit’s end in the beginning of Chapter 6?
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
Who is the audience for Maus? What is the ideal reader for Maus likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?
Essay Topic 3
Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?
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