Honors Composition

Study Questions for Spiegelman's Maus, Vol. 1, Ch. 2

1. What gets Anja in trouble, how does Vladek react, and how do they get out of it?

2. What happens to Anja shortly after the birth of their son, Richieu?

3. What do they see when they go to Czechoslovakia in 1938?

4. What do they hear about what is happening in Germany?

5. What is the situation when they return to Poland?
   

6. What happens to Vladek shortly after they return?

7. Why do you think Art concludes the chapter in the way he does, just as Vladek goes to war?
   What do we learn by this brief return to the present?