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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the villa Guests do to let Jan know they did not like the way he was treating Antonina?
(a) Gave him the silent treatement.
(b) Wrote him a letter.
(c) Locked him out of the villa.
(d) Talked to him about his behavior.

2. What did Fox Man use as a wet nurse for the baby foxes?
(a) A stuffed animal with bottles attached to it.
(b) A muskrat.
(c) His cat.
(d) A pig.

3. About how many people did Jan say were rescued through the zoo?
(a) 150.
(b) 65.
(c) 300.
(d) 750.

4. What was the name of Antonina's children's book about lynxes?
(a) Rysie.
(b) Tofi and Tufa.
(c) A Lynx Tale.
(d) The Wild Lynx.

5. Who did the German soldier blame for a fire at the barracks on the zoo grounds?
(a) Rys.
(b) Antonina.
(c) Jan.
(d) The Underground.

6. What animal did Magdalena Gross sculpt as a gift for Jan?
(a) A bison.
(b) A starling.
(c) A camel.
(d) An elephant.

7. What was Szczurcio?
(a) A rooster.
(b) A pig.
(c) A rabbit.
(d) A muskrat.

8. Where did historian Ringelblum hide documents that described what happened in Warsaw during the war?
(a) In coffins buried in graveyards.
(b) In boxes kept at the zoo.
(c) Milk churns.
(d) Inside the wall around the Ghetto.

9. What is another name for the bottle grenades that Jews in the Ghetto used as a defense against the Germans?
(a) Molotov cocktail.
(b) Gasoline grenade.
(c) German growler.
(d) Bottle bomb.

10. Who kept vigil with Rys while he waited for his father to return at curfew?
(a) Fox Man's parakeets.
(b) Wicek and Kuba.
(c) Szczurcio.
(d) Maurycy and Magdalena.

11. How many boxes did Antonina recall there were in Szymon Tenenbaum's insect collection?
(a) 50.
(b) 20.
(c) 400.
(d) 800.

12. What was the name of Szymon Tenenbaum's wife?
(a) Zarka.
(b) Janusz.
(c) Lonia.
(d) Irene.

13. What did Antonina do to try to draw less attention to the Kenigsweins so they could be moved?
(a) Moved them one at a time.
(b) Bleached their hair.
(c) Hid them in the cart used to bring vegetable peelings to the zoo to feed the animals.
(d) Disguised them as zoo workers.

14. Where is Szymon Tenenbaum's insect collection today?
(a) The State Zoological Museum.
(b) The Warsaw Zoo.
(c) The Natural History Museum.
(d) It has been destroyed.

15. How old was Janusz Korczak when the deportations to the death camps began?
(a) 56.
(b) 35.
(c) 64.
(d) 82.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of face did Nazi Posters depict Jewish people as having?

2. What did Himmler study before the war?

3. What did Antonina convince the German soldier was the cause of the fire at the barracks on the zoo grounds?

4. What job did Antonina give Genia to disguise her while she lived at the zoo?

5. How did Janina Buchholtz, a member of Zegota, help Jan and Antonina rescue Jews?

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