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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to legend, what did the word Poland sound like in Hebrew that made the Jews want to go there?
(a) Beautiful garden.
(b) Sanctuary.
(c) Rest here.
(d) Paradise.

2. When Antonina ventured outside of the store they were sheltered in, what did she see falling from the sky?
(a) Ash.
(b) Feathers.
(c) Parachutes attached to supplies for the Germans.
(d) Birds.

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

4. What did the Polish vice president suggest the zoo be used for?
(a) A fur farm.
(b) A new zoo.
(c) A vegetable garden to feed the locals.
(d) An herbal plant company.

5. Who sent fruit and vegetable peelings to the zoo to feed the animals in the fall after Warsaw's surrender?
(a) Dr. Muller.
(b) Lutz Heck.
(c) Hitler.
(d) The people of Warsaw.

6. What did Antonina send with Jan to deliver when he went into the Ghetto to collect scraps to feed the pigs?
(a) Letters.
(b) Packets of food.
(c) Clothing donations.
(d) Books.

7. What element of zoo design did Lutz Heck advocate for?
(a) Small animal enclosures.
(b) Barred cages that made it easy for people to view the animals.
(c) Enclosures that resembled the animals' natural habitats.
(d) An open safari-like zoo.

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

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

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

11. Where in the zoo did the Germans build a weapons storehouse?
(a) The polar bear enclosure.
(b) The lions' island.
(c) The Pheasant House.
(d) In the basement of the villa.

12. What kind of tree drew bees to the zoo?
(a) Cherry.
(b) Oak.
(c) Pine.
(d) Linden.

13. What task did Antonina sometimes do in the middle of the night?
(a) Cleaning animal cages.
(b) Baking.
(c) Washing.
(d) Midwife a zoo animal.

14. What was the zoo's cryptonym?
(a) The Lynx House.
(b) The House Under a Crazy Star.
(c) The House Under a Full Moon.
(d) The Monkey House.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people were confined to the 20 blocks that constituted the Ghetto?

2. What was Rys told about the Guests who stayed at the zoo?

3. Who helped Jan to return to Warsaw during the initial battle?

4. How did Jan and Antonina know the German soldier who came to the villa to tell them that Lutz Heck wanted to see them?

5. What was the name of the rhesus monkey that was stealing babies from other monkeys?

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