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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the people of Warsaw gather in the streets to see after Poland surrendered?
(a) The Polish soldiers being taken to a POW camp.
(b) The animals escaping from the zoo.
(c) The German army entering the city.
(d) Hitler delivering a speech.

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

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

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

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

6. What print did Antonina prefer for her clothing?
(a) Polka dots.
(b) Checks.
(c) Solid colors.
(d) Stripes.

7. What is an aurochs?
(a) A bison.
(b) A bull.
(c) A horse.
(d) A bird.

8. What did Hitler do to justify an attack on Poland?
(a) Portrayed the Jews as evil people who needed to be exterminated.
(b) Staged a phony attack on a German border town.
(c) Claimed Poland was building up weapons to attack Germany.
(d) Claimed the Jews were planning to invade Germany.

9. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

15. What was Jan collecting in the boxes he placed on shelves in the villa's kitchen?
(a) False documents.
(b) Insects.
(c) Fuses for bombs.
(d) Springs for his research instruments.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Jan meet while on a daily bicycle tour of the zoo?

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

3. What happened to Morys?

4. What was the zoo's cryptonym?

5. What was Lutz Heck's profession before the war?

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