MAUS
Vladek’s flashbacks are set mostly in this European country.
What is Poland?
The event that caused the U.S. to enter WWII.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
The U.S. government relocated Japanese Americans to these camps.
What are internment camps?
In Maus, the mouse represents this group.
Who are the Jewish people?
This U.S. state is known as the Sunshine State.
What is Florida?
The concentration camp where Vladek and Anja were imprisoned.
What is Auschwitz?
The year World War II began.
What is 1939?
Children collected this kind of material to be recycled for war use.
What is metal or rubber?
Dogs in Maus represent this group.
Who are the Americans?
The only even prime number.
What is 2?
What does Vladek do for a living before the war begins?
He works in textiles and owns a factory.
The D-Day invasion took place on this coast.
What is Normandy, France?
This British Prime Minister famously declared, “We shall never surrender.”
Who is Winston Churchill?
Art draws different nationalities as animals to symbolize these human divisions.
What are race and ethnicity?
The only U.S. president to serve more than two terms.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
What is the full title of the first volume of Maus?
What is “My Father Bleeds History”?
The Allied countries included the U.S., Great Britain, and one more.
What is the Soviet Union?
These coded messages were used by Native Americans in the Pacific.
Who were the Navajo Code Talkers?
The use of animals to represent races is an example of this literary device.
What is allegory?
What is the only food that never spoils?
What is honey?
Why does Vladek’s father make him look unhealthy before the army draft?
To keep him from being forced into military service.
The name of the plan to exterminate European Jews.
What is the Final Solution?
Propaganda posters often encouraged people to buy these.
What are war bonds?
What mental trauma did Anja suffer from after the war that ultimately led to her death.
This country was formerly known as Persia.
What is Iran?