maus: Chapter 5 questions
Chapter Five: Mouse Holes
1.How does Art respond to his father when Vladek calls to ask for help with fixing the drainpipe?
2.What is “Prisoner on the Hell Planet”? How is this comic different from Maus? How is it similar?
3.What happens to Richieu in the Ghetto in Zawiercie? Why?
4.Why does Vladek build a bunker? Does this bunker help the family survive? Explain.
5.Vladek lets his cousin know that he can pay him for his help. Why? Does it matter?
6.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?
7.Why does Anja’s nephew Luke refuse to go to the hidden bunker? Does he make a smart decision? Why or why not?
8.Why does Art Spiegelman portray the paths in the image to the right as a swastika? How does this image express Vladek and Anja’s
situation?
9.Why does Vladek keep the 14 karat gold cigarette case and lady’s powder case from Srodula, Poland?
10.Vladek questions why he ever remarried after Anja’s death. Why do you think he married Mala? Do you think Vladek and Mala have a good marriage? Explain.
1.How does Art respond to his father when Vladek calls to ask for help with fixing the drainpipe?
2.What is “Prisoner on the Hell Planet”? How is this comic different from Maus? How is it similar?
3.What happens to Richieu in the Ghetto in Zawiercie? Why?
4.Why does Vladek build a bunker? Does this bunker help the family survive? Explain.
5.Vladek lets his cousin know that he can pay him for his help. Why? Does it matter?
6.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?
7.Why does Anja’s nephew Luke refuse to go to the hidden bunker? Does he make a smart decision? Why or why not?
8.Why does Art Spiegelman portray the paths in the image to the right as a swastika? How does this image express Vladek and Anja’s
situation?
9.Why does Vladek keep the 14 karat gold cigarette case and lady’s powder case from Srodula, Poland?
10.Vladek questions why he ever remarried after Anja’s death. Why do you think he married Mala? Do you think Vladek and Mala have a good marriage? Explain.
