Try It

Use the review games below to practice.

Explain the allegories in Mause I, A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History.

Clue: These animals represent Nazi Germans who prey on the Jewish mice.

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Clue: These animals represent the Poles, or Polish people.

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Clue: These animals represent the Jews, lowly, non-human vermin, or pests, who need to be

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These animals represent Americans who save the Jewish mice from the German cats.

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Practice!

Let's see if you can recognize these important concepts from Maus.

Choose your answer from one of the options below:

• Swastika
• Heil Hitler
• Artie
• Mice
• Vladek
• Anti-Semitism
• Anja
• Richlieu
• Cats
• Meta-fiction

1) Who survived the Holocaust?

Answer: Vladek

2) What is the allegorical term for Jews?

Answer: Mice

3) What is the name of the Nazi flag?

Answer: Swastika

4) What is prejudice against Jews called?

Answer: Anti-Semitism

5) Who committed suicide?

Answer: Anja

6) What is the allegorical term for Nazi Germans?

Answer: Cats

7) Who died in WWII Poland?

Answer: Richlieu

8) What is a mixture of several types of literature?

Answer: Meta-fiction

9) What was the salute to Hitler and to Nazi Germany?

Answer: Heil Hitler

10) Who is a second generation survivor?

Answer: Artie