maus vocab chapters 1-4

Question 0

sheik

Answer 0

a man who was masterful and charming to the ladies

Question 1

cataract

Answer 1

an abnormality of the eye

Question 2

communism

Answer 2

a system of local organization in which all economic and social activity is controlled by a single person or party

Question 3

tenant

Answer 3

someone who rents an apartment from a landlord

Question 4

anti-semitic

Answer 4

being prejudice against Jews

Question 5

sanitarium

Answer 5

a institution for rest or a mental hospital

Question 6

pogrom

Answer 6

an organized massacre, especially for Jews

Question 7

annexed

Answer 7

attached to;incorporated into a larger body

Question 8

Gestapo

Answer 8

an abbreviation of “geheime stastspolizei”, the secret police

Question 9

reich

Answer 9

land annexed by Germany, later meaning nazi regime

Question 10

protectorate

Answer 10

land controlled by Germany government

Question 11

wehrmacht

Answer 11

the German armed forces

Question 12

bar mitzvah

Answer 12

a ceremony to admit a 13 year old Jewish boy into an adult Jewish community

Question 13

schlepped

Answer 13

Yiddish for “carried or moved in a trudging fashion”