MAUS Quizzes

MAUS Quiz 1

By Jack Murphy · Edited by Jordan Berkow · Last reviewed January 28, 2007

1 How does the elder Vladek exercise?

Stationary bicycle

Goes for a run

Roller blading

Lifts weights
2 In what city did Vladek live before he met Anja?

Bielsko

Srodula

Czestochowa

Sosnowiec
3 Who introduces Vladek to Anja?

His cousin

His mother

His brother

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

Shoe Repair

Textiles

Tinsmith

Manufacturing
5 How does Lucia get revenge on Vladek when she hears of his engagement?

She steals money

She writes an incriminating letter to Anja

She trashes his apartment

She gets him fired from his job
6 To whom does Anja give Communist documents for hiding?

Her neighbor

Vladek

Lucia

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

A munitions factory

A textile factory

A textile store

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

Russia

Czechoslovakia

Poland

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

It has burned to the ground

It has been robbed

It has been taken over by the Germans

It has been sold to a competitor
10 At what age did Vladek first go into the army?

25

18

21

16
11 What did Vladek's father do to try and prevent his joining the army?

Pulled out his teeth

Moved to a different country

Bribed an army officer

Intentionally starved him
12 How many Germans does Vladek kill in the one battle he fights?

10

2

5

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 calloused

They are scarred

They are thoroughly scratched

They are very delicate
15 What does Vladek do every morning at the P.O.W. camp?

Writes a letter to his family

Says a prayer

Smokes a cigarette

Takes a bath in a nearby river
16 What game do the P.O.W.s play at the camp?

Checkers

Cribbage

Backgammon

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

Anja

His father

His grandfather

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

Passover

Yom Kippur

Parshas Truma

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

Sosnowiec

Breslin

Bielsko

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

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

They were shot

They were forced into a ghetto

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 suffered a stroke

He has suffered a heart attack

He has been sent to a concentration camp

The Germans have cut off his beard
23 What does Vladek do to Art's coat?

He throws it away

He asks Mala to fix it

He takes it for himself

He spills food on it
24 What chore does Vladek ask Art to help him with on his third visit to Rego Park?

Clean the garage

Fix a drain pipe on the roof

Rake the leaves

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

15

2

5

12

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