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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 does Vladek come back to Anja with, after walking around Sosnowiec?

2. What does Artie say is his mission in writing about his father?

3. Under what condition does Vladek say his cousin risked helping him at Srodula?

4. What does Artie say, in Chapter 6, bothers him about his father?

5. What happens when Vladek and Anja are followed after leaving Mrs. Motonowa’s house?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Vladek learn from Kahum Cohn’s example?

2. How did Vladek and Anja end up being deported to Auschwitz?

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

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

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

6. Describe Vladek and Anja’s disguises when they return to Sosnowiec.

7. Where do Vladek and his fellow prisoners go after leaving Srodula?

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

9. How is the “Prisoner on the Hell Planet” different from the rest of Maus?

10. How does Artie characterize his father’s attitude toward money in the beginning of Chapter 4?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

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.

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