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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Rys mean in Polish?
(a) Rabbit.
(b) Lynx.
(c) Lion.
(d) Starling.
2. When Antonina ventured outside of the store they were sheltered in, what did she see falling from the sky?
(a) Birds.
(b) Parachutes attached to supplies for the Germans.
(c) Ash.
(d) Feathers.
3. What was the zoo's cryptonym?
(a) The Monkey House.
(b) The House Under a Full Moon.
(c) The House Under a Crazy Star.
(d) The Lynx House.
4. Where did the lynxes that Antonina adopted come from?
(a) The Bialowieza Forest.
(b) The Washington Zoo.
(c) The Berlin Zoo.
(d) A North American wildlife preserve.
5. What did the Germans refuse to purchase for the pigs?
(a) Deworming medicine.
(b) Vaccinations.
(c) Vitamins.
(d) Straw.
6. Which of the following was an entomologist?
(a) Szymon Tenenbaum.
(b) Lutz Heck.
(c) Magdalena Gross.
(d) Maurycy Fraenkel.
7. Who divorced her husband and staged her disappearance because she was Jewish and he was not?
(a) Magdalena Gross.
(b) Ewa Brzuska.
(c) Irena Sendler.
(d) Wanda Englert.
8. What area of the city was directly across the river from the zoo?
(a) The Jewish Quarter.
(b) New Berlin.
(c) The Polish Marketplace.
(d) Old Town.
9. Which of the following is an extinct animal that Lutz Heck hoped to re-create?
(a) Tarpan.
(b) Saber toothed cat.
(c) Mammoth.
(d) Giant sloth.
10. 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 former employee of the Warsaw Zoo.
(c) He was a guard at the Berlin Zoo.
(d) He was a classmate of Jan's.
11. What did the Polish vice president suggest the zoo be used for?
(a) An herbal plant company.
(b) A fur farm.
(c) A vegetable garden to feed the locals.
(d) A new zoo.
12. How did Rys first hear about the impending war?
(a) From Antonina who explained why they had to leave the zoo.
(b) From his teacher.
(c) From his friends while at the country house.
(d) From Jan when he was leaving to join the Home Army.
13. What kind of animal was Rys's pet named Morys?
(a) Lynx.
(b) Cockatoo.
(c) Pig.
(d) Rabbit.
14. Why did Jan and Antonina think Lutz Heck might help them?
(a) He was a trustworthy man.
(b) He was a friend of Jan's father.
(c) He was sweet on Antonina.
(d) He was sympathetic to the Jews.
15. Which animals were the first that a visitor to the zoo would see?
(a) Giraffes.
(b) Rhesus monkeys.
(c) Flamingos.
(d) Elephants.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Antonina feed the Guests that she passed off as pheasant?
2. Where did Ewa Brzuska (Granny) hide Jews who were on their way to other locations?
3. What happened to Morys?
4. Who ruled Warsaw after the surrender?
5. What song did Antonina play on the piano as a warning signal for the Guests?
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