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MAUS FINAL EXAM (ACTUAL 2025/2026) QUESTIONS AND
VERIFIED ANSWERS
What territory is Vladek's home in, after the division of Poland?
- ---Answers----The Protectorate
Why does Vladek say his position as a Jew in Poland is less secure than his position as a prisoner of war? - ---Answers-- --P.O.W. are regulated by war conventions; Jews can be killed with impunity
How does Vladek insult Artie without meaning to? - --- Answers----He throws out his coat
What does Artie's father want him to fix, when Artie shows up at the beginning of Chapter 4? - ---Answers----A leaking drain pipe
What is Artie's father's response when Artie says that he should hire someone to fix the broken item in Chapter 4? - --- Answers----Money doesn't grow on trees
What does Artie's father say happens if he does not pedal on his exercise bike? - ---Answers----He gets leg cramps
What new tool has Artie brought with him to interview his father? - ---Answers----A tape recorder
What does Artie's father say his home was like when he returned from the P.O.W. camp? - ---Answers----His in-laws live much the same as before
How many people were living in Vladek's father-in-laws household? - ---Answers----
Why does Artie's father say that Anja's Uncle Herman and Aunt Helen were lucky? - ---Answers----They were in New York when the war started
What complaint does Vladek's mother-in-law make about her soup? - ---Answers----She can't get the ingredients she needs
How many ounces of bread is each member of Vladek's inlaws entitled to during the war, with the coupons the Germans have issued? - ---Answers----
How does Anja's family get the food they need during the war?
- ---Answers----The black market
What is the punishment for even minor violations of laws during the war? - ---Answers----Being sent to a work camp
What happens the next time Vladek goes to Modrzejowska Street? - ---Answers----The Nazis close off the street to inspect people's papers
How does Vladek avoid trouble at Modrzejowska Street? - --- Answers----He disappears into a building
Where does Vladek get a work card? - ---Answers----At a tin shop
Why do the Germans leave Vladek's mother-in-laws nice bedroom set alone when they come to plunder the household?
- ---Answers----They do not take is because she is ill
How does Ilzecki save Vladek's life? - ---Answers----He gives him somewhere to hide when the Nazis are rounding up Jews
What offer does Ilzecki make to Vladek, as described in Chapter 4? - ---Answers----He offers to send Richieu away for safekeeping
In Chapter 4, what does Artie urge his father to do, regarding his story? - ---Answers----Keep his story chronologically straight
Where did the Zylberberg family go on January 1, 1942? - --- Answers----A smaller apartment
What happened to Nahum Cohn, and Jews who did business without coupons? - ---Answers----They were hung
What does Artie's father say Anja was doing during their time in the ghetto? - ---Answers----Housework, and writing in her journal
What business does Vladek say he started after 1942? - --- Answers----Trading gold and silver
Where did Malala's mother hide, that she survived living in the ghetto? - ---Answers----In a coal cellar
What wakes Artie up in Chapter 5 - ---Answers----Mala is calling because Vladek has climbed out on the roof
Why does Artie say he hated helping his father around the house? - ---Answers----Vladek would always critize how he did things
How does Artie says that his father influenced his decision to become an artist? - ---Answers----It was a field where he wouldn't have to compete with his father
What is Vladek doing when Artie sees him next in Chapter 5? - ---Answers----Sorting nails
What does Artie say is Vladek's relationship with Artie's comic books? - ---Answers----He doesn't look at them when Artie puts them under his nose
Where did Vladek and Anja go from Sosnowiec? - ---Answers- ---A ghetto
When were Vladek and the others moved to Srodula? - --- Answers----
Where did Vladek and Anja and her family live in Srodula? - -- -Answers----A shack
Who were the guards at Srodula? - ---Answers----Jews with sticks
Who ultimately takes Pichieu away from the ghetto? - --- Answers----Persis
How does Vladek characterize the head of his ghetto? - --- Answers----A man who thought only of himself
Who did the Germans round up in the spring of 1944? - --- Answers----The children
What ultimately happened to Richieu? - ---Answers----He was poisoned when the Germans liquidated the ghetto where he was staying
What does Vladek make a sketch of, for Artie in Chapter 5? - -- -Answers----The bunker at the ghetto at Srodula
Where does Vladek say he made a bunker in the second house he lived in at Srodula? - ---Answers----In the attic
What question is Vladek forced to answer when a man stumbles upon the bunker he has made? - ---Answers---- Whether to trust him
Under what condition does Vladek say his cousin risked helping him at Srodula? - ---Answers----If he paid
What saves Vladek when has a heart attack on the sidewalk? - ---Answers----Nitrostat
What saves Vladek from a beating at the hands of a German guard while in Srodula? - ---Answers----His connection with Haskel Spiegelman
Where does Vladek take refuge as Srodula is liquidated? - --- Answers----In a bunker inside a pile of shoes
Who does Vladek run into on the streets of Sosnowiec? - --- Answers----A fellow Jew
What does Vladek come back to Anja with, after walking around Sosnowiec? - ---Answers----Food
What does Vladek use for currency? - ---Answers----The jewels he saved
Where doe Vladek ride when he takes the street car into town?
- ---Answers----The German car
How does Mrs. Motonowa get Vladek and Anja to her house? - ---Answers----She poses as his wife, and Anja as their governess
What does Vladek give to Mrs. Motonowa for her protection? - ---Answers----Money
What does Anja tutor Ms. Motonowa's son in? - ---Answers--- -German
Why do Vladek and Anja have to leave Mrs. Motonowa house? - ---Answers----The Gestapo searched her goods in the market
What happens when Vladek and Anja are followed after leaving Mrs. Motonowa's house? - ---Answers----The people continue without bothering them
Where do Vladek and spend the night after leaving Mrs.Motonowa's house? - ---Answers----In a bare foundation
After leaving Mrs. Motonowa's house, where do Vladek and Anja consider fleeing to? - ---Answers----Hungary
What does Anja disagree with Vladek about, after they leave Mrs. Motonowa's house? - ---Answers----Fleeing
What does Vladek tell the smugglers? - ---Answers----That he will go in the future
Where is Vladek's cousin Miloch hiding? - ---Answers----In a garbage pit
Where does Vladek send Miloch and his wife and child? - --- Answers----To Mrs. Motonowa's
What convinces Vladek to flee from Poland? - ---Answers---- The letter from his cousin who had gone ahead
Who causes Vladek and Anja to be arrested? - ---Answers--- -The smugglers
What experience does Art Spiegelman's father contrast with Art's experience of his friends skating away when his skate broke? - ---Answers----His experience in the Holocaust
What period is covered by chapter 1? - ---Answers----1930s to 1944
Where does Artie's father live, in the beginning of the memoir?
- ---Answers----Rego Park, NY
How did Artie's mother die? - ---Answers----Suicide
How does Artie describe the relationship between his father and Anja? - ---Answers----They don't get along
What business was Artie's father in before the war? - --- Answers----Textiles
Who does Artie's father say he was often compared to? - --- Answers----Rudolph Valentino
How does Artie's father characterize his relationship with women? - ---Answers----He says they were seeking him out
Who is Lucia Greenberg? - ---Answers----The first girl Artie's father has a relatioship with
Where did Artie's father meet Anja? - ---Answers----In a park
How does Artie's father surprise Anja on their first date? - --- Answers----By understanding her when she speaks in English
When does Artie's father say he quit school to work? - --- Answers----Forteen
What criticism does Lucia make of Anja? - ---Answers---- That she is not good looking
What does Anja's teacher tell Artie's father tell about Anja? - - --Answers----He has never had a student as sensitive and intelligent as her
What is the age difference between Artie's father and Anja? - - --Answers----Six years
How does Vladek characterize Anja's family? - ---Answers--- -Millionaires
What are the pills for, that are in Anja's bureau? - --- Answers----Nervousness
What does Anja's closet tell Vladek about her character? - --- Answers----She keeps things neat
Why does Artie say, in chapter 1, that he wants to gather this information about Anja? - ---Answers----He says that he wants to tell a personal story, not a story about the Holocaust
Whose story does Artie say, in chapter 1, he wants to tell? - --- Answers----His father's
What is Artie's father doing when Artie sees him again in Chapter 2? - ---Answers----Counting pills
What reason does Artie's father give for what he is doing in Chapter 2? - ---Answers----He says that it is important for him to keep himself alive
What medical condition does Artie's father have? - --- Answers----Heart disease
How does Artie's father describe Anja's relationships before marriage? - ---Answers----He says that she had no romantic relationships
Who is the friend Anja "always runs to see" even after her and Vladek were married? - ---Answers----A communist from Warsaw
What is Anja's involvement with her friend she "always runs to see" even after her and Vladek are married? - ---Answers---- She translates his messages into German
Who does Anja's friend get her in trouble with? - ---Answers- ---The police
Who gets arrested because of the work Anja does for her friend? - ---Answers----Anja's seamstress
What does Vladek say was his reaction to someone getting arrested? - ---Answers----He was ready to break off his marriage
What does Vladek say was Anja's response to his strong reaction to someone getting arrested due to the work she was doing for her friend during the war? - ---Answers----He says that she agreed to stop seeing the communist
What was the outcome for the person who was arrested due to Anja's work for her friend? - ---Answers----She remained in prison for three months but was let go
How does Anja's family mend fences after the arrest she caused due to her work with her friend? - ---Answers---- They pay the seamstress a good amount of money
What does Artie's father say his father-in-law wanted to procure for him? - ---Answers----A textile factory
Where does Artie's father say he lived during the Great War? - ---Answers----In Poland
What effect does Vladek's story about his father rescuing the pillow in 1914 have on Anja? - ---Answers----It lifts her spirits
What happened in the Bielsko factory while Vladek and Anja were away? - ---Answers----It was robbed
What starts to happen in the town where Vladek and Anja live after they've had their son? - ---Answers----Conscription of young men
What happens to disturb Vladek and Anja's peace in 1939? - --- Answers----Vladek is drafted
What is Vladek and Anja's reaction to Vladek being drafted? - - --Answers----Vladek reports, and Anja returns to her parents
WHen the war begin for Vladek? - ---Answers----September 1, 1939
What problem does Vladek have with his eyes? - ---Answers- ---He has one glass eye, and cataracts in the other
What does Vladek do when his eye doctor misdiagnoses him? - ---Answers----He does not say anything
How does the process of gathering information change Artie's relationship with his father? - ---Answers----He starts to visit him more
What does Artie say was his father's policy regarding food? - - --Answers----Artie had to eat everything on his plate
How does Artie's father characterize Anja's relationship with Artie? - ---Answers----He says that she was too easy on him
How does Artie characterize his father's relationship with Mala? - ---Answers----Indifferent
How much training does Vladek say he got in the polish army?
Where was Vladek stationed when he was in the polish army?
- ---Answers----At the German Frontier
When did Vladek first serve in the army? - ---Answers----At 21
How does Vladek say his father escaped from Russian military service? - ---Answers----By pulling out his teeth
