"Maus" Hunt Trivia Quiz

Answer: they got caught by the Gestapo

Vladek's prisoner number was an omen that he would live. In the beginning of the second book, a man who was a priest came over to him and pointed out the signifance of the numbers in Judaism.

Answer: Rego Park

Rego Park is in the borough of Queens, part of New York City. Vladek and Mala lived here with many other Holocaust survivors.

Answer: textile factory

Vladek's business helped him to acquire funds that later would later aid him in paying for Poles to hide him when deportation began.

Answer: Auschwitz-Birkenau

Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest part of the camp, and also the most dangerous. Most of the gassing occurred in this part of the camp. Auschwitz III Buna-Monowitz was a hard labor camp, where male prisoners did back-breaking labor for the rubber plant there.

Answer: Richieu

Richieu, Vladek and Anja's first son, died during the war. He was poisoned by Anja's sister Tosha, who killed herself and also Richieu's cousins Lonia and Bibi.

Answer: Zylberberg

This is first mentioned when Anja and Vladek are on their very first outing together and a teacher Anja had recognizes her and calls her by her full name.

Answer: Oswiecim

Today in Oswiecim there is a memorial and also a museum.

Answer: Anja's diaries

"Anja was writing always her diary."--Vladek Spiegelman. Art wanted his mother's diaries to incorporate her ordeal while she was in hiding and also while she was in Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Answer: Gross Rosen

As liberation drew near, the Nazis quickly scrambled, trying to dismember evidence of the atrocities they had committed. They also forced prisoners on "Death Marches" to take them inside Germany and, as Vladek says, "Finish them quietly."

Answer: Czechtochowa

Poland was invaded on September 1, 1939 by Germany. The devastation was massive by the end of the war. The town of Krakow saw much tragedy, some of which is depicted in the 1993 film "Schindler's List."

Answer: False

Lucia sent a letter to Anja when she found out Vladek was dating her, telling her about Vladek's supposed womanizing reputation.

Answer: trench coat

Vladek was extremely meticulous with material things, always telling Art how he could find better deals on merchandise.

Answer: English tutor

Having skills was very beneficial, you were more likely to get a job and therefore maybe lived longer or even survived.

Answer: False

Although Lolek refused to continue hiding when the ghetto was being liquidated and got taken to Auschwitz, he survived, married and became a successful college professor.

Answer: Vladek had her shoes fixed

Doing favors for the kapos helped prisoners to live a little longer in some situations. Because of Vladek's connections in the camp, he was able to have this done for Anja.

Answer: telephone wire

Vladek is a pack rat, and as he says, "Why buy when you can find?"

Answer: in the attic of a house

When the Spiegelmans are hiding in the attic, they take the piece of the ceiling they cut to make an entrance out and see a man sitting in the living room, who sees them and begs for them to hide him.

Answer: moving large boulders

Although Vladek managed to acquire a few jobs that did not require hard labor, he was taken away for "black work" for a time.

Answer: suicide

Anja commited suicide in the bathtub, Art Spiegelman depicts it when he includes a segment from his work, "Prisoner from the Hell Planet."

Answer: Richieu

Vladek has finally finished telling his survival of the war and the Holocaust, telling "Artie" to, "Stop please, your tape recorder. I am tired from talking, Richieu, and it's enough stories for now."