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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the baby elephant's name?
(a) Kuba.
(b) Kasia.
(c) Tuzinka.
(d) Wicek.

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

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

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

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

7. What was Magdalena's profession?
(a) Painter.
(b) Professor.
(c) Sculptor.
(d) Teacher.

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

9. How did Jan and Antonina know the German soldier who came to the villa to tell them that Lutz Heck wanted to see them?
(a) He was a former employee of the Warsaw Zoo.
(b) He was a guard at the Berlin Zoo.
(c) He was a classmate of Antonina's.
(d) He was a classmate of Jan's.

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

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

12. What was the name of the river that bordered the zoo?
(a) Warta.
(b) Bug River.
(c) Rhine.
(d) Vistula.

13. What animal did Antonina and Rys take to their country home with them?
(a) A baby badger.
(b) An otter.
(c) A rabbit.
(d) A baby lion.

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

15. What area of the city was directly across the river from the zoo?
(a) The Jewish Quarter.
(b) The Polish Marketplace.
(c) Old Town.
(d) New Berlin.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What kind of animal was Rys's pet named Morys?

5. How many calories per day were Jews rationed?

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