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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What did Antonina feed the Guests that she passed off as pheasant?
(a) Flamingos.
(b) Starlings.
(c) Pigeons.
(d) Crows.

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

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

6. What was Antonina's father's occupation?
(a) Railroad engineer.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Author.
(d) Professor.

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

8. What skill did Antonina's grandmother send her to school to study?
(a) Piano.
(b) Painting.
(c) Bookkeeping.
(d) Sewing.

9. Who did Jan meet while on a daily bicycle tour of the zoo?
(a) Antonina.
(b) Fox Man.
(c) Magdalena.
(d) Maurycy.

10. What responsibility did Antonina attend to each day at the zoo following her breakfast?
(a) Fed the elephants.
(b) Greeted VIP visitors.
(c) Did the laundry.
(d) Taught Rys his daily lessons.

11. What were the racist laws that governed how much Jewish blood a person could have without being "tainted" called?
(a) The Himmler laws.
(b) Hitler's Edicts.
(c) The Aryan laws.
(d) The Nuremberg laws.

12. Which of the following was an entomologist?
(a) Lutz Heck.
(b) Magdalena Gross.
(c) Szymon Tenenbaum.
(d) Maurycy Fraenkel.

13. Which of the following was one of Lutz Heck's hobbies?
(a) Collecting insects.
(b) Big game hunting.
(c) Gardening.
(d) Fishing.

14. What was the name of the rhesus monkey that was stealing babies from other monkeys?
(a) Lutz.
(b) Adolf.
(c) Janusz.
(d) Maurycy.

15. Who divorced her husband and staged her disappearance because she was Jewish and he was not?
(a) Irena Sendler.
(b) Magdalena Gross.
(c) Wanda Englert.
(d) Ewa Brzuska.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Jan's cryptonym?

2. What did the Polish vice president suggest the zoo be used for?

3. After Antonina heard that the Polish army was going to surrender, who delivered a message to the contrary?

4. What did Lutz Heck take from the Warsaw Zoo in addition to valuable animals?

5. What was the punishment for harboring a Jew?

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