Honors Composition

Study Questions for Spiegelman's Maus, Vol. 1, Ch. 4

1. How is Vladek able to get by in Sosnowiec?

2. Describe the increasingly difficult conditions in the town.

3. What does Ilzecki propose to Vladek? What is the outcome, both for Vladek's family and Ilzecki's?

4. What happens to some of Vladek's black market business contacts? How does Vladek react, then and now?

5. What happens to Anja's grandparents? What does Vladek say here about Jews's attitudes toward turning in other Jews?

6. What does Vladek say about their knowledge of Auschwitz?

7. What happens at the massive registration in the stadium?

8. What do we learn in the concluding scene with Mala and Art?