Q 01/05

In Maus, where Art Spiegelman draws Jewish characters as mice, which animal represents the Germans who hunt them?

A) Owls

B) Cats

C) Hawks

D) Snakes

Answer · why

B) Cats

Cats let Spiegelman turn the Nazis' own vermin propaganda into a predator-and-prey picture. He drew them no bigger than the mice, leaving readers to m...

Q 02/05

Art Spiegelman's Maus was the first graphic novel ever to win which major US honor, given as a special award?

A) Pulitzer Prize

B) Newbery Medal

C) National Book Award

D) Caldecott Medal

Answer · why

A) Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize went to Maus as a special award in 1992, sidestepping the argument over which category it belonged in. Critics could not agree whet...

Q 03/05

In Maus, what did Vladek do with the notebooks in which his late wife Anja wrote down her wartime story?

A) Sold them

B) Buried them

C) Mislaid them

D) Burned them

Answer · why

D) Burned them

Burned them, he admits, on a day after her death when the memories were too much. All he recalls of the pages is her wish that her son would one day b...

Q 04/05

Which 1980s sticker-card craze did Maus creator Art Spiegelman co-create in his day job at Topps?

A) Ninja Turtles

B) Cabbage Patch Kids

C) Garbage Pail Kids

D) Pound Puppies

Answer · why

C) Garbage Pail Kids

Garbage Pail Kids came out of the Topps job that was Spiegelman's main income for two decades, including his first years on Maus. He also co-created W...

Q 05/05

A school board in which US state voted in 2022 to pull Maus from its curriculum, sending sales soaring?

A) Tennessee

B) South Carolina

C) Oklahoma

D) Virginia

Answer · why

A) Tennessee

Tennessee's McMinn County board objected to profanity, violence and nudity in the book. Within days of the news Maus was the best-selling book on Amaz...