Maus - Chapters 1 + 2

Graphic novels are a literary form which combines...

• ...history and literature.
• ...narration and dialogue.
• ...visual and written elements.
• ... novelty and subversive content.

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Art is the son of...

• Lucia and Vladek

• Anja and Vladek

• Stewart and Anja

• Lucia and Stewart

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.

Why do you believe Vladek didn't want a relationship with Lucia (the woman he dated before Anja)?

At the end of Chapter 1, why doesn't Vladek want Artie to write about his relationship with Lucia?

In Chapter 2, what was the conspiracy that Anja was supposedly involved in because of her previous boyfriend?

• Helping Italy plan an invasion of Germany

• Plotting to kill Hitler

• Translating Communist documents

• Helping Nazi officials plan a revolution

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.

In Maus, what animal is used to depict the Polish?

• Cat

• Dog

• Mouse

• Pig

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CCSS.RL.K.5

While Vladek took Anja to the sanitarium they went through a little town inside Czechoslovakia. There, they saw a Nazi flag for the first time. If you drove through a town nearby where you live and saw a Nazi flag hanging, how would you feel? Please explain.

After Anja recovers and Vladek takes her out of the sanitarium to come home, what news do they receive from Anja's father?