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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How many people were confined to the 20 blocks that constituted the Ghetto?
(a) 25,000.
(b) 250,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 400,000.

4. What kind of animal was Rys's pet named Morys?
(a) Lynx.
(b) Pig.
(c) Cockatoo.
(d) Rabbit.

5. Where is Szymon Tenenbaum's insect collection today?
(a) It has been destroyed.
(b) The State Zoological Museum.
(c) The Warsaw Zoo.
(d) The Natural History Museum.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Ewa Brzuska (Granny) hide Jews who were on their way to other locations?

2. What did the Germans refuse to purchase for the pigs?

3. Where did the lynxes that Antonina adopted come from?

4. What animal is thought to be the cause of the death of much of Napoleon's army?

5. How did Rys first hear about the impending war?

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