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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16 - 23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Lutz Heck take from the Warsaw Zoo in addition to valuable animals?
(a) The blueprints for the zoo.
(b) Rys's pet badger.
(c) Breeding records.
(d) The money set aside for feeding the animals.

2. 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) Had their meat laced with poison and delivered to the German army.
(c) Left their corpses to rot to deter the German soldiers from moving into the zoo.
(d) Had them butchered and their meat distributed to the hungry.

3. 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 fellow zookeepers.
(d) That they were all colleagues of his father.

4. What name did Jewish women with Aryan-sounding names have to change their names to?
(a) Mary.
(b) Esther.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Rebekah.

5. What area of the city was directly across the river from the zoo?
(a) New Berlin.
(b) Old Town.
(c) The Polish Marketplace.
(d) The Jewish Quarter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What element of zoo design did Lutz Heck advocate for?

2. What animal frequently followed Jan around the zoo on his daily bicycle tours?

3. What unusual food did Wicek like to eat?

4. Who divorced her husband and staged her disappearance because she was Jewish and he was not?

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

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