Maus Chapter 1-3

Art Spiegelman uses mice to represent the Jews because he...

• thinks that Jews are dirty and annoying like mice.

• thinks mice are cute.

• wants to show how Hitler and the Nazi's viewed the Jews.

• believed that mice are easier to draw than regular people.

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On page 11, Spiegelman tells us that his father’s second wife Mala was a survivor too, like most of his parents’ friends. What does he mean?

• Mala has survived being his wife.

• Mala has lived for a long time, so she must have survived through some kind of tragedy, right?

• Mala was also a survivor of the Holocaust.

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Art is the son of...

• Lucia and Vladek

• Anja and Vladek

• Stewart and Anja

• Lucia and Stewart

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Vladek asks art not to write about Lucia in his book because...

• Lucia told him that she never wanted to be in a book.

• Lucia was so beautiful and Art would never be able to draw her correctly.

• Vladek feels like his relationship with Lucia has nothing to do with Hitler or the Holocaust.

• Lucia is still alive and she might be embarrassed.

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When Vladek leaves Anja and their new child, Richieu, to go to find a new place for them to live, how does Anja react?

• Anja is happy that her husband cares so much for her.

• Anja begins to suffer from depression.

• Anja is angry with him because she thinks that Vladek will forget her.

• Anja laughs at him because it is a stupid idea.

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At the end of chapter 2, what news does Vladek receive in the mail?

• That he has been drafted into the military.

• That his son has passed away.

• His wife leaves him and only left a note.

• His father was captured by the Nazi's.

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How does Vladek's father try to keep him out of the military?

• By breaking both of his legs.

• By starving him and not letting him sleep so he looks sick and unhealthy.

• He tells the military that his son has an intellectual disability.

• He tells him to move to America.

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The Jewish prisoners of war are treated

• Better than the other prisoners.

• The same as the other prisoners.

• Worse than the other prisoners.

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Do you like this book?

• Yes.

• No.

• Kind of.