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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Jan build an ammunitions dump for the Home Army?
(a) Near the rabbit hutch.
(b) In the basement of the villa.
(c) The Pheasant House.
(d) The elephant enclosure.

2. What kind of store did Antonina and Rys seek shelter in when Antonina thought the fourth floor apartment was not safe?
(a) Bakery.
(b) Clothing store.
(c) Linen shop.
(d) Lampshade store.

3. What did Lutz Heck take from the Warsaw Zoo in addition to valuable animals?
(a) Rys's pet badger.
(b) Breeding records.
(c) The money set aside for feeding the animals.
(d) The blueprints for the zoo.

4. Where did the lynxes that Antonina adopted come from?
(a) The Berlin Zoo.
(b) The Bialowieza Forest.
(c) A North American wildlife preserve.
(d) The Washington Zoo.

5. What animal did Jan raise at the zoo to feed German soldiers?
(a) Cattle.
(b) Pigs.
(c) Sheep.
(d) Rabbits.

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

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

8. Which animals were the first that a visitor to the zoo would see?
(a) Rhesus monkeys.
(b) Giraffes.
(c) Elephants.
(d) Flamingos.

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

10. What symbol were Jews forced to wear to identify them as Jews?
(a) A picture of a rat.
(b) A cross.
(c) The letter J.
(d) The star of David.

11. What was explorer Ernst Schafer sent to locate?
(a) The Garden of Eden.
(b) A pure tarpan.
(c) The Holy Grail.
(d) The roots of the Aryan race.

12. Where did Ewa Brzuska (Granny) hide Jews who were on their way to other locations?
(a) In her lampshade shop.
(b) In her grocery store.
(c) In her kitchen.
(d) In her barn.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the river that bordered the zoo?

2. Who did Antonina and Rys stay with when Jan was first ordered to join the army and the zoo was evacuated?

3. What were the race of "pure" humans that the Nazis sought to create called?

4. What event were Jan and Antonina preparing for when the war began?

5. What does Rys mean in Polish?

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