Characters
The author and illustrator, who is also the main character's son
Who is Art (Artie) Spiegelman?
Vladek's home country
What is Poland?
A recurring symbol, image, or idea that contributes to the development of a novel’s theme
What is a motif?
These people are represented by cats.
What are Nazis (or Germans)?
Vladek thinks Mala is ____________ while Mala thinks Vladek is ___________.
What are "money-hungry" and "cheap"?
The protagonist, who narrates the story of his past
Who is Vladek?
Where the Nazis originated
What is Germany?
The boxes in a comic strip or graphic novel in which the words and pictures appear
What are panels?
This type of people are represented in the novel as pigs
What are non-Jewish Polish people?
The title of the comic Artie wrote detailing his mother's suicide
What is "Prisoner on the Hell Planet"?
The main character's first girlfriend
The country where the sanitarium Anja must go to is located
What is Czechoslovakia?
The space between boxes in a graphic novel or panel
What is a gutter?
This fear or feeling is represented by the motif of nooses, mouse holes, traps, and increasingly small spaces
What is claustrophobia?
This is what Artie calls Vladek at the very end of the novel.
What is a murderer?
Vladek's second wife, who is also a Holocaust survivor
Who is Mala?
The country Vladek and Anja hope to escape to before being captured by the Nazis
What is Hungary?
Text usually written in a box that narrates or describes the action happening.
What is a caption?
The pathways Vladek and Anja face near the end of the novel are shaped like this
What is a swastika?
This is why Artie is so angry at Vladek at the end of the novel.
What is because Vladek had burned Anja's diaries?
The main character's first son
Who is Richieu?
Where Artie and Vladek live in present day
What is Rego Park, New York?
Balloons of different shapes and sizes that capture what a particular character is saying
What is a speech balloon?
What is Vladek's continue struggle with trauma following his experience in the Holocaust?
This is the subtitle to book I of Maus: A Survivor's Tale
My Father Bleeds History