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When does Maus begin? - ---Answers---- 1958
How old is Art Spiegelman at the beginning of the memoir? - - --Answers----Eleven or twelve
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
What wedding gift does Artie's father say his father-in-law gave him? - ---Answers----A gold watch
What objection does Artie's father make about the material Artie is gathering? - ---Answers----He says that it has nothing to do with Hitler
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
Where does Vladek say he saw the swastika for the first time?
- ---Answers----Czechoslovaka
After their son is born, what do Vladek and Anja hear is going on in Germany? - ---Answers----War
How does Artie's father characterize the situation for the Jews in Germany in 1937? - ---Answers----He says that is was not that bad yet
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?
How does Vladek keep from being beaten when he is taken captive in the war? - ---Answers----He speaks to the soldiers in German
What task is Vladek assigned to after being captured in the war? - ---Answers----Collecting German injured and dead
What task is Vladek given after being taken to a camp during the war? - ---Answers----To clean out a stable
What does Artie's chide him with, while he is telling Artie stories? - ---Answers----Dropping cigarette ash on the carpet
What are Vladek's accommodations in the P.O.W camp? - --- Answers----Unheated tents
What was Vladek's chess set made of? - ---Answers---- Stones and bread
While in the P.O.W camp, what were the conditions under which Vladek could write home? - ---Answers----He had to write in German
What does Vladek volunteer for while in the P.O.W camp? - --- Answers----A work detail
What are Vladek's accommodations like on the assignment he volunteered for while being in the P.O.W? - ---Answers---- Much more comfortable than the P.O.W. camp
What tools are Vladek and his companions given to work with on his work detail? - ---Answers----Shovels
What work are Vladek and his fellows given for their work details? - ---Answers----Moving mountains
What percentage of the worker's stayed at the work camp, according to Vladek? - ---Answers----80%
What does Vladek dream will happen at Parshas Truma? - --- Answers----He will be released
What events also took place on Parshas Truma? - --- Answers----Vladek and Anja were married
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
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 happened to Vladek's Bielsko factory during the war? - - --Answers----It was taken by the Germans
What does Vladek find out is the problem with his in-laws family's finance during the war? - ---Answers----They have lost their factories, but they are still living like they did before the war
How do Vladek's in-laws distract themselves from the war? - - --Answers----By playing cards
Who does Vladek run into on Modrzejowska Street? - --- Answers----A tailor who used to be a customer of his
What does the individual whom Vladek runs into on Modrzejowska Street give him? - ---Answers----A note that will get him into his shop
Where does Vladek visit after he runs into someone he knew on Modrzejowska Street? - ---Answers----To the shops that owed him money before the war
Why does Vladek hide his money from his in-laws? - --- Answers----He knows they will just spend it
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
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
When is "Prisoner on the Hell Planet" set? - ---Answers---- 1968
Where had Artie been, when "Prisoner from the Hell Planet" begins? - ---Answers----The mental hospital
How had Artie's mother killed herself? - ---Answers----She slit her wrists
Who found Artie's mother's body? - ---Answers----Vladek
How does the "Prisoner on the Hell Planet" differ from the rest of Maus stylist? - ---Answers----More sinister
What does Artie resent in "Prisoner on the Hell Planet"? - --- Answers----His father's excessive grief
What does Artie say overwhelms him at his mother's funeral?
What were Anja's last words to Artie? - ---Answers----You still love me, don't you
How does Artie describe the position his mother puts him in by killing herself? - ---Answers----He feels like a prisoner, who is guility for having killed her
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----
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
When Vladek and Artie are at the bank together, what complaint does Vladek make about Mala? - ---Answers----He says that she wants his money for herself
What complaint does Mala make about Vladek at the beginning of Chapter 6? - ---Answers----That he is stingy
In what way does Mala say Vladek is unique among people she knew from the camps? - ---Answers----No one else is so cheap
What does Artie say, in Chapter 6, bothers him about his father? - ---Answers----He is just like the stereotype of the miserly Jew
What does Artie say is his mission in writing about his father?
- ---Answers----To portray him as he actually is
What part of his father's story does Artie say he wished he knew more about? - ---Answers----Anja's story
What suggestion does Artie make to his father about his father's relationship with Mala? - ---Answers----To see a marriage conselor
How does Art Spiegelman depict the Jews pretending to be Poles? - ---Answers----He draws them with pig masks over thier mouse faces
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
