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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 24 - 30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How was the siege on the Ghetto that was meant to remove or kill the remaining Jews there ended?
(a) The Jews were all taken to concentration camps.
(b) The Jews succeeded in pushing the Germans out of the Ghetto.
(c) The remaining Jews were lined up in the streets and shot.
(d) The Germans burned everything.

2. What unusual food did Wicek like to eat?
(a) Pickles.
(b) Meat.
(c) Fish.
(d) Peppers.

3. What was Rys told about the Guests who stayed at the zoo?
(a) That they were all colleagues of his father.
(b) That he had to keep them a secret.
(c) That they were fellow zookeepers.
(d) That they were German soldiers.

4. What did Jan and Antonina do with the dead antelopes, deer, and horses after the initial attack on Warsaw?
(a) Buried them in the garden.
(b) Left their corpses to rot to deter the German soldiers from moving into the zoo.
(c) Had their meat laced with poison and delivered to the German army.
(d) Had them butchered and their meat distributed to the hungry.

5. What was the name of Antonina's children's book about lynxes?
(a) Tofi and Tufa.
(b) A Lynx Tale.
(c) The Wild Lynx.
(d) Rysie.

Short Answer Questions

1. What skill did Antonina's grandmother send her to school to study?

2. Who told Antonina that the Polish army was planning to surrender?

3. What act of sabotage did Rys and his friend plan to undertake?

4. According to legend, what did the word Poland sound like in Hebrew that made the Jews want to go there?

5. What did Rys find the boys who hid in the Pheasant House surrounded by when he went in to introduce himself?

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