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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 31 - 36.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Jan collecting in the boxes he placed on shelves in the villa's kitchen?
(a) Fuses for bombs.
(b) Springs for his research instruments.
(c) False documents.
(d) Insects.

2. What did Feliks Cywinski say was his happiest moment while rescuing Jews?
(a) The birth of Regina Kenigswein's baby.
(b) Rescuing a toddler from the Ghetto.
(c) The end of the war when all of the Jews he was hiding could go free.
(d) The day the Ghetto was reopened.

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

4. What was Lutz Heck's profession before the war?
(a) He was a lawyer.
(b) He was the director of the Berlin Zoo.
(c) He was a professor at the college Jan attended.
(d) He was a veterinarian.

5. 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 them butchered and their meat distributed to the hungry.
(d) Had their meat laced with poison and delivered to the German army.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is never mentioned in Antonina's memoirs?

2. How did the Polish Underground learn of Treblinka?

3. Where was Rys standing to watch the Uprising when a German soldier saw him?

4. What print did Antonina prefer for her clothing?

5. What did Magdalena sculpt because it was the only model available when she returned to the zoo after the war?

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