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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the river that bordered the zoo?
(a) Warta.
(b) Vistula.
(c) Bug River.
(d) Rhine.

2. How did Jan and Antonina know the German soldier who came to the villa to tell them that Lutz Heck wanted to see them?
(a) He was a classmate of Antonina's.
(b) He was a classmate of Jan's.
(c) He was a guard at the Berlin Zoo.
(d) He was a former employee of the Warsaw Zoo.

3. Who urged the people of Warsaw to accept Poland's surrender peacefully?
(a) Hitler.
(b) General Rommel.
(c) Lutz Heck.
(d) The mayor.

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

5. What did the Germans refuse to purchase for the pigs?
(a) Deworming medicine.
(b) Straw.
(c) Vaccinations.
(d) Vitamins.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Jan collecting in the boxes he placed on shelves in the villa's kitchen?

2. What song did Antonina play on the piano as a warning signal for the Guests?

3. How many calories per day were Jews rationed?

4. Where did Jan build an ammunitions dump for the Home Army?

5. What was Magdalena's profession?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was unusual about the baby badger that Antonina raised?

2. Why did Lutz Heck want to re-create the aurochs?

3. Why was Antonina glad Rys was not with her when she travelled back to the country home after visiting Jan in Warsaw?

4. Why did Lutz Heck hold the shooting part at the zoo on New Year’s Eve?

5. Why did Wanda and Adam Englert divorce?

6. How did Antonina describe her friend Magdalena?

7. Why were Antonina’s parents killed when she was nine?

8. Why did Jan purposely draw attention to himself when he was thanking Ziegler for bringing him to the Ghetto to see Szymon Tenenbaum?

9. How did Dr. Muller help Jan return to Warsaw?

10. Why did Jan suggest that the zoo be used to raise pigs?

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