Characters
Narrates the story, drawing on interviews with his father regarding his experiences in World War II and eventually Auschwitz
Who is Artie?
This is the term for the historical genocide that took place during WWII.
What is the Holocaust?
What Vladek uses to get favors from the Germans.
What are valuables like watches, diamonds, etc.
He came to Vladek in a dream to tell him everything would be alright.
Who is Vladek's grandfather?
He is the author of Maus.
Who is Art Spiegelman?
The protagonist of the story. Often stationed on his exercise bike, explaining the details of his experiences throughout the war.
Who is Vladek?
The country the story takes place.
What is Poland?
What importance did the stadium have in the story
What is where the Jews were sorted, to be sent to different camps.
Vladek got out of the POW camp by______
What is volunteering to work for the Germans?
Causes hostility between Mala & Vladek.
What is money?
Vladek's second wife and a survivor of the Holocaust as well.
who is Mala?
The animal used to portray the Natzis.
What are cats?
Vladek found that Anja was translating documents for___.
What are communists?
Vladek does these two things which make him stand out from the other prisoners in the POW camp.
What is exercise and bathe?
The special day that Vladek got released from the POW camp.
What is Parshas Truma?
Vladek's first wife. She survived internement in the concentration camps but later committed suicide while Artie was still a child.
Who is Anna?
How Artie's Mother "left."
What is suicide?
The name of the first comic that Artie wrote. Who was it written about?
What is "Prisoner on a Hell Planet" and it was about his mother's death.
The reason Vladek throws away Artie's jacket...
It was old and tattered and he didn't want that image for his son.
what is wood?
Vladek's first child.
Who is Richieu?
The camp that Anja and Vladek are taken to at the end of the book.
What is Auschwitz?
How did Vladek support his family when Germans took over the city?
What is by using the Black Market?
At the very end of the story Artie calls Vladek...
What is a murder?
What is a memoir?