Maus
What animal are the Jews depicted as?
mice
What does he tell his daughter when she asks if he ever killed anyone?
He lies and says he never did.
When the boys look down at all the people on the street, what do they think?
They are all sinners.
What does Mrs. Crater want Mr. Shiftlet to teach Lucynell to say?
Sugarpie
What happened to over 100,00 people in 1968?
They read the poem and disappeared into it.
One of the three groups of people who were sent to the left side
elderly people, people with children, people without work permits (disabled people)
In this narration, how many times does he tell the story?
twice
What vocabulary word describes the feelings of the boys fighting on the rockpile?
jubilant
What is the bait that Mrs. Crater uses in order to catch Mr. Shiftlet?
the car
In this poem, the poet doesn't use these.
capital letters
What information given to Art's father turned out not to be true?
that his father had come to the good side
A Detail that says something about his training
He pulled the pin and lobbed the grenade before thinking about it.
Describe how John feels in his family and why he feels this way.
He feels like an alien because he was born out of wedlock (Gabriel is not his father).
Where is Lucynell at the end of the story, and what is she doing?
sleeping at the diner
the name of the TV show that the narrator watched
"Thriller"
What is different about the square in which Fela's father is climbing over the fence?
Her father's body is coming out of the box as he climbs over the fence
Something Kiowa said to him when he kept staring off into space.
The man would have died anyway. It was a good kill. You're a soldier, and this is war. He would have done the same to you.
What does Elizabeth realize her husband wants to see at the end of the story ?
her perdition
What does Mr. Shiftlet try to get the hitchhiker to do?
go back to his mother
Who does the old lady pull into the mirror?
future tenants of her house
What happened to Art's mother long after the holocaust but probably as a result of it?
She committed suicide?
What does he actually picture when he visualizes the scene over and over again?
The Viet Kong soldier just continues to walk on without getting killed.
What does Elizabeth do that works as a propitiation to her husband?
She shifts the baby in her arms (which reminds him that she is the mother of his children)
In Mr. Shiftlet's story, what is the doctor in Atlanta doing?
He is holding a human heart in his hand. (Let's talk about Jeremiah 17:9.)
In what sense is the poem pulling you into it like the mirrors in the TV show.
It is capitivating (fascinating, delighting, enthralling) you.