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Maus II Ch 1 & 2 Review

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Francoise is_____________________.

a)

Vladek's wife

b)

Art's wife

c)

A Nazi collaborator

d)

All of these

2.

What skill does Vladek use to help him survive?

a)

Teaches the Kapo English

b)

Works as a car mechanic

c)

Works as a carpenter

d)

All of these

3.

What camp was Anja in?

a)

Auschwitz

b)

Birkenau

c)

The book did not say

d)

Somewhere in Poland

4.

How does Valdek make contact with Anja while in Auschwitz?

a)

He disguises himself as a guard to get on her side of the yard.

b)

He sees her at the lunch table and talks to her.

c)

He passes notes to her through a friend

d)

He did not make contact with her.

5.

Why does Yidl not like Vladek?

a)

He says that Vladek is a capitalist and not skilled as a tinsmith

b)

Because Vladek is Jewish

c)

Because Vladek married the woman that he loves.

d)

Because Vladek thinks that he is better than Yidl.

6.

Why did Vladek get beaten in Chapter II?

a)

He was talking to a friend

b)

He was talking to Anja

c)

He lied to a guard

d)

He didn't fix the roof correctly

7.

What was a "Blocksperre"?

a)

Prisoners could leave the room

b)

Prisoners could not leave the room

c)

Prisoners had to march around the camp for miles

d)

A piece of bread

8.

What skill did Valdeck get to show the Germans he could do?

a)

Tailoring clothes

b)

A shoemaker

c)

Cooking

d)

Cleaning

9.

What made a difference in how Anja was treated by the Kapo?

a)

She had Vladek fix a shoe of a mean Kapo

b)

She was given food by others and shared

c)

She had an affair with one of them

d)

She found out that she went to school with one of them.

10.

What reward did Vladek get for fixing the shoe of a Gestapo?

a)

A bar of chocolate

b)

A whole sausage

c)

Eggs

d)

Milk

11.

According to Vladek, why didn't the Jews resist?

a)

They had hope

b)

They didn't want to

12.

Why didn't Art's parents have a picture of him?

a)

He was alive

b)

They were all destroyed during the Holocaust

c)

They didn't believe in pictures.

d)

None of these

13.

What does Art think might have been "presumptuous" of himself?

a)

Writing a book about the Holocaust

b)

Talking to Vladek

c)

Having a rivalry with his brother.

d)

None of the Above

14.

What lie does Vladek tell in Chapter 1?

a)

That he had a heart attack.

b)

That Mala took his money.

c)

That Mala left him.

d)

All of these

15.

Maus II begins with which conflict?

a)

Art and Richieu arguing about their father

b)

Art trying to decide how to draw Francoise

c)

all of these

d)

Vladek trying to figure out how to get to Vermont.

16.

What is a Kapo?

a)

A Prisoner of War

b)

Someone killed in combat

c)

A supervisor

d)

The name of a Polish soldier

17.

Art Spiegelman uses this animal to represent Germans.

a)

Dog

b)

Pig

c)

Cat

d)

Mouse

18.

What did Mala do when she left?

a)

Cried

b)

Took money out of the account and drove off to Florida

c)

Told him she was never coming back

d)

She did not leave.

19.

What does the Polish priest tell Vladek in the concentration camp that gives him hope and renewed life.

a)

The tattoo on his arm totals 18, which means life.

b)

He shows him how to escape the concentration camp.

c)

He gives him food.

d)

None of these- there is no Polish priest.

20.

Which of the following most likely explains Vladek's "stinginess?"

a)

Due to the Holocaust, he learned to hold on to and protect any resources he could get.

b)

He lost his wife Anja during the Holocaust

c)

He still believed that he was living in the Holocaust.

d)

He is naturally a mean and selfish person.