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Question 1

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By the time Vladek returns to Sosnowiec from the prisoner of war camp, what has happened to the food supply ?

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Asked by Marcos R #664292

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Question 2

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Maus: Book I

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Asked by leaniris g #662627

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Question 3

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THE SHIEK

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Asked by Kaden P #662412

Last updated by Aslan on 6/7/2017 2:21 AM

Question 4

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Why did Art Spiegelman include himself in the very beginning of Maus?

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Asked by Diellza E. M #661268

Last updated by Aslan on 6/3/2017 5:42 PM

Question 5

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Aspects of family trauma in Spiegelman's Maus?

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Asked by Diellza E. M #661268

Last updated by Aslan on 6/3/2017 5:37 PM

Question 6

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Why does Spiegelman include his much older comic “Prisoner on the Hell Planet”? What function does the comic-within-the-comic serve? Why does Spiegelman include actual photos of himself and his mother at the beginning of “Prisoner on the Hell Planet”? Ski

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Asked by Brandon L #657616

Last updated by Aslan on 5/23/2017 5:59 PM

Question 7

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Why do people show up for public inspections, despite suspicions of German motives? What skills or qualities does Vladek possess that help him survive and sometimes even prosper? Are there drawbacks to these qualities as well?How much of Vladek’s survival

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Asked by Brandon L #657616

Last updated by Aslan on 5/23/2017 5:53 PM

Question 8

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What social, historical,and cultural elements cause cultures or identities to clash

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Asked by Denise S #657503

Last updated by Aslan on 5/23/2017 5:51 PM

Question 9

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We see some Jew's who have been hanged by the Germans. What other "noose" is tightening in this chapter?

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Asked by Brooke A #656901

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Question 10

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Did you think about some of the choices that had to be made in this chapter? What would you have decided in the same situations?

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Asked by Brooke A #656901

Last updated by jill d #170087 on 5/22/2017 3:35 PM

Question 11

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Why does Art Spiegelman use mice instead of people to portray the characters in the story? What do the mice represent?

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Asked by Richard L #656835

Last updated by jill d #170087 on 5/22/2017 1:21 PM

Question 12

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What do we learn from Vladek when he is showing Artie the photographs?

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Asked by Fiona B #619557

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Question 13

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Why do you think that the members of the German military that the freed Jews run into do not kill them? What does this demonstrate?

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Asked by Fiona B #619557

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Question 14

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Why did Art Spiegelman included the anecdote about the African-American hitchhiker?

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Asked by Fiona B #619557

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Question 15

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What were some of the ways that Vladek attempted to survive in this section?

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Asked by Fiona B #619557

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Question 16

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What challenges faced Vladek after he left Auschwitz? Do you think that he found this treatment worse, or not as bad?

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Asked by Fiona B #619557

Last updated by Fiona B #619557 on 5/15/2017 2:27 PM

Question 17

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How do the differences between prisoners in the camps go away? How do they stay the same? What do you think this says about the goals of the camps?

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Asked by Fiona B #619557

Last updated by Fiona B #619557 on 5/15/2017 2:26 PM

Question 18

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What is causing Artie’s writer’s block? How does his session with Pavel help him?

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Asked by Fiona B #619557

Last updated by Fiona B #619557 on 5/15/2017 2:26 PM

Question 19

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What do you think the title of Chapter 14, "The Noose Tightens," could be referring to?

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Asked by Rodney S #650159

Last updated by jill d #170087 on 5/9/2017 1:08 AM

Question 20

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Analyze why the Spiegelman's decided to leave Poland and try to get to Hungary, despite having a good hiding place? How might their lives have been different if they had stayed in Szopienice?

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Asked by Fiona B #619557

Last updated by Aslan on 5/7/2017 4:06 AM

Question 21

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What is the “Mousetrap” that the chapter title refers to?

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Asked by Fiona B #619557

Last updated by Aslan on 5/7/2017 4:01 AM

Question 22

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Why do you think that Vladek is constantly saving things that Artie sees as junk? (In this chapter it is telephone wire he finds on the street, and the old nails he is sorting at the beginning). Analyze how this might relate to Vladek’s statement about

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Asked by Fiona B #619557

Last updated by jill d #170087 on 5/3/2017 2:59 PM

Question 23

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on page 116 vladek refers to haskel as a kombinator what is a kombinator why does vladek call haskel a kombinator do you agree with him why or why not

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Asked by Rahman S #645411

Last updated by Aslan on 4/29/2017 9:00 PM

Question 24

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What do the smugglers in the graphic novel smuggle? CH 6

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Asked by Jordan T #582860

Last updated by jill d #170087 on 4/27/2017 1:44 AM

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