Honors Composition

Study Questions for Spiegelman's Maus, Vol. 1, Ch. 6

1. Coming as it does after the concluding episode of Chapter Five, what is the significance of Mala and Art's conversation?

2. What is Art worried about with respect to the portrayal of his father in his book?

3. What is Mala and Vladek's appraisal of Art's book?

4. What happens to Vladek and Anja when they return to Sosnowiec?
   Where do they end up finding food and shelter? How does Vladek help them to survive?

5. What happens on Vladek's trip to Kawka's farm to meet with the smugglers?

6. What plan to do they undertake to get out of Poland?

7. Whom does Vladek visit before they leave and why?

8. How do they get arrested, and what does Vladek say when they arrive at Auschwitz?

9. What happened to Anja's diaries? How does Art react?
   

10. Having come to the end of Volume One, what do you think is the significance of the volume's subtitle, "My Father Bleeds History"?