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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What were the race of "pure" humans that the Nazis sought to create called?
(a) Aryans.
(b) Freemasons.
(c) Gnostics.
(d) Neolithics.

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

4. What did the Germans refuse to purchase for the pigs?
(a) Vaccinations.
(b) Deworming medicine.
(c) Straw.
(d) Vitamins.

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

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

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

8. What animal frequently followed Jan around the zoo on his daily bicycle tours?
(a) A baby elephant.
(b) A lynx.
(c) A camel.
(d) An elk.

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

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

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

12. Who did Antonina supposedly remind Lutz Heck of?
(a) His first love.
(b) His mother.
(c) His sister.
(d) His wife.

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

14. What happened to Morys?
(a) He was shot during Lutz Heck's shooting party.
(b) He died during the winter because of frigid temperatures.
(c) He was sold to buy food for the Guests.
(d) German soldiers took him away to be butchered.

15. Why did Jan and Antonina think Lutz Heck might help them?
(a) He was a friend of Jan's father.
(b) He was sympathetic to the Jews.
(c) He was a trustworthy man.
(d) He was sweet on Antonina.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Rys mean in Polish?

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

4. Which of the following is an extinct animal that Lutz Heck hoped to re-create?

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

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