MAUS Quizzes

MAUS Quiz 1

1 How does the elder Vladek exercise?
Lifts weights

Goes for a run

Roller blading

Stationary bicycle
2 In what city did Vladek live before he met Anja?
Sosnowiec

Srodula

Czestochowa

Bielsko
3 Who introduces Vladek to Anja?
His father

His mother

His brother

His cousin
4 What is Vladek's business before he meets Anja?
Textiles

Tinsmith

Manufacturing

Shoe Repair
5 How does Lucia get revenge on Vladek when she hears of his engagement?
She gets him fired from his job

She writes an incriminating letter to Anja

She steals money

She trashes his apartment
6 To whom does Anja give Communist documents for hiding?
Lucia

Vladek

Her neighbor

Her father
7 What does Anja's father give to Vladek to assist with his career?
A textile store

A textile factory

A shoe factory

A munitions factory
8 In what country is the sanitarium to which Anja is brought after she becomes depressed?
Czechoslovakia

Russia

Poland

Germany
9 When Vladek and Anja return from the sanitarium, what has happened to their factory?
It has been robbed

It has been sold to a competitor

It has been taken over by the Germans

It has burned to the ground
10 At what age did Vladek first go into the army?
16

21

18

25
11 What did Vladek's father do to try and prevent his joining the army?
Intentionally starved him

Bribed an army officer

Pulled out his teeth

Moved to a different country
12 How many Germans does Vladek kill in the one battle he fights?
5

2

10

1
13 What does Vladek eventually do to the soldier he kills?
Writes to his family

Buries him

Says a prayer over his body

Takes his watch
14 What stands out about Vladek's hands when they are examined by a German soldier?
They are very delicate

They are calloused

They are scarred

They are thoroughly scratched
15 What does Vladek do every morning at the P.O.W. camp?
Says a prayer

Smokes a cigarette

Takes a bath in a nearby river

Writes a letter to his family
16 What game do the P.O.W.s play at the camp?
Chess

Checkers

Backgammon

Cribbage
17 At the P.O.W. camp, who visits Vladek in a dream?
His mother

His grandfather

His father

Anja
18 In Vladek's dream at the P.O.W. camp, on what day will he be released?
Yom Kippur

Passover

Rosh Hashanah

Parshas Truma
19 To what city is Vladek brought when he is first released from the German P.O.W. camp?
Breslin

Bielsko

Sosnowiec

Lublin
20 What happened to the previous group of prisoners released from the P.O.W. camp?
They were shot

They were forced into a ghetto

They were placed in another P.O.W. camp

They were sent to a concentration camp
21 Who claims Vladek as a cousin to guarantee his release at Lublin?
Mandelbaum

Orbach

Wolfe

Lolek
22 What does Vladek see has happened to his father when he returns from the P.O.W. camp?
He has been sent to a concentration camp

He has suffered a heart attack

The Germans have cut off his beard

He has suffered a stroke
23 What does Vladek do to Art's coat?
He throws it away

He spills food on it

He asks Mala to fix it

He takes it for himself
24 What chore does Vladek ask Art to help him with on his third visit to Rego Park?
Do the dishes

Rake the leaves

Fix a drain pipe on the roof

Clean the garage
25 When Vladek returns to Sosnowiec from the P.O.W. camp, how many people are living in Anja's father's house?
12

15

2

5