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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the punishment for harboring a Jew?
(a) Death.
(b) An enormous fine.
(c) 20 years in prison.
(d) Public flogging.

2. What does Rys mean in Polish?
(a) Rabbit.
(b) Lynx.
(c) Lion.
(d) Starling.

3. What song did Antonina play on the piano as a warning signal for the Guests?
(a) Beethoven's Symphony Number Nine.
(b) I'll Be Seeing You.
(c) Go, go, go to Crete!
(d) The Star Spangled Banner.

4. What event were Jan and Antonina preparing for when the war began?
(a) National Animal Awareness Day.
(b) A tour of the zoo by important political figures.
(c) The International Association of Zoo Directors' annual meeting.
(d) The sale of the zoo to Germany.

5. What did Jan and Antonina do with the dead antelopes, deer, and horses after the initial attack on Warsaw?
(a) Left their corpses to rot to deter the German soldiers from moving into the zoo.
(b) Buried them in the garden.
(c) Had them butchered and their meat distributed to the hungry.
(d) Had their meat laced with poison and delivered to the German army.

6. What language was illegal to speak in Warsaw during the German occupation?
(a) French.
(b) German.
(c) Hebrew.
(d) Polish.

7. What book did Antonina and Rys read while Lutz Heck's shooting party was going on at the zoo?
(a) Oliver Twist.
(b) Tarzan of the Apes.
(c) Robinson Crusoe.
(d) A Tale of Two Cities.

8. How did Rys first hear about the impending war?
(a) From his friends while at the country house.
(b) From Jan when he was leaving to join the Home Army.
(c) From his teacher.
(d) From Antonina who explained why they had to leave the zoo.

9. How old was Antonina when her parents were killed?
(a) Eleven.
(b) Five.
(c) Nine.
(d) Twenty.

10. Who was Danglu Leist?
(a) One of Hitler's top officers.
(b) The German president of Warsaw.
(c) The Polish vice president of Warsaw.
(d) The director of the Berlin Zoo.

11. Who did Antonina and Rys stay with when Jan was first ordered to join the army and the zoo was evacuated?
(a) Jan's mother.
(b) Rys's teacher.
(c) Antonina's sister-in-law.
(d) Antonina's mother.

12. What did Hitler do to justify an attack on Poland?
(a) Staged a phony attack on a German border town.
(b) Portrayed the Jews as evil people who needed to be exterminated.
(c) Claimed Poland was building up weapons to attack Germany.
(d) Claimed the Jews were planning to invade Germany.

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

14. Who told Antonina that the Polish army was planning to surrender?
(a) Magdalena Gross.
(b) Maurycy Fraenkel.
(c) Szymon Tenenbaum.
(d) Adam Englert.

15. What is an aurochs?
(a) A bison.
(b) A bird.
(c) A horse.
(d) A bull.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many calories per day were Jews rationed?

2. What name did Jewish women with Aryan-sounding names have to change their names to?

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

4. What animal did Jan raise at the zoo to feed German soldiers?

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

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