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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 kind of face did Nazi Posters depict Jewish people as having?
(a) Rat-like.
(b) Devil-like.
(c) Snake-like.
(d) Horse-like.

2. What did Antonina convince the German soldier was the cause of the fire at the barracks on the zoo grounds?
(a) An act of sabotage.
(b) A cigarette left by a German soldier.
(c) Lightning.
(d) An electrical short.

3. What season was it when Antonina was finally able to leave her bed after months of convalescing?
(a) Spring.
(b) Winter.
(c) Summer.
(d) Fall.

4. Which of the following words best describes Magdalena's personality?
(a) Quiet.
(b) Cheerful.
(c) Nervous.
(d) Sullen.

5. What did Antonina do to try to draw less attention to the Kenigsweins so they could be moved?
(a) Bleached their hair.
(b) Disguised them as zoo workers.
(c) Hid them in the cart used to bring vegetable peelings to the zoo to feed the animals.
(d) Moved them one at a time.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who saw Magdalena at the zoo and gossiped about it?

2. Who tells Antonina about Rys's and his friend's plan to sabotage the Germans?

3. What was Janusz Korczak's real name?

4. What did Jan give the German president that changed his mind about reopening the Warsaw Zoo?

5. What did Rys do during the winter days when Jan was at work?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reason did Mrs. Dewitzowa give Antonina for sending Magdalena and Maurycy back to the zoo?

2. How did Zegota member Janina Buchholtz hide the presence of false papers in her office?

3. What did Feliks Cywinski do periodically to hide the fact that he was rescuing Jews?

4. How was Mrs. Walter helping Jews to hide?

5. Why did Jan talk to Rys as though he were a soldier when he confronted the boy about his plan to bomb a haystack?

6. What did Antonina write in her journal that the author said was as close as she ever got to writing about being an orphan?

7. How did the Jews respond to Himmler trying to liquidate the remaining Jews in the Ghetto in 1943?

8. Why did Jan and Antonina carry cyanide pills with them?

9. Why does Ackerman describe Wicek the rabbit as a “fat, furry thug”?

10. Why was it difficult for some Jews to change their names in order to go into hiding?

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