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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Jan say Antonina was able to convince the German soldier of how the fire at the barracks started?
(a) She used her superior intelligence.
(b) She flirted with the soldier.
(c) She used her skill with difficult animals.
(d) She acted meek so the soldier would not suspect her.

2. What animal is thought to be the cause of the death of much of Napoleon's army?
(a) Louse.
(b) Mosquito.
(c) Bird.
(d) Rat.

3. What caused Rys to be hospitalized in the winter of 1943?
(a) Typhus.
(b) Pneumonia.
(c) A broken leg.
(d) Appendicitis.

4. Why did Rys tell his mother he knew more about keeping wartime secrets than she did?
(a) Because Jan had told Rys secrets that he had not told Antonina.
(b) Because he was the one who fed the Guests in the animal enclosures.
(c) Because he was smarter than she was.
(d) Because she was a woman.

5. What kind of face did Nazi Posters depict Jewish people as having?
(a) Rat-like.
(b) Horse-like.
(c) Snake-like.
(d) Devil-like.

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

7. What happened to the littermates of the baby hamster that Jan gave to Rys?
(a) They were confiscated by a German soldier to give to his children.
(b) They were used for experiments.
(c) They were eaten by a cat.
(d) Their mother killed them.

8. During the third winter of the war, which room was the only one in the villa the Zabinskis were able to heat?
(a) The office.
(b) The dining room.
(c) The kitchen.
(d) The bathroom.

9. What were Jews passing as Aryans called?
(a) Sparrows.
(b) Deer.
(c) Cats.
(d) Foxes.

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

11. How did Janina Buchholtz, a member of Zegota, help Jan and Antonina rescue Jews?
(a) She provided false documents for the Jews.
(b) She snuck Jews out of the Ghetto disguised as her patients and brought them to the zoo.
(c) She brought them food.
(d) She gave them money.

12. What act of sabotage did Rys and his friend plan to undertake?
(a) Bombing a haystack.
(b) Burning the German weapons hold at the zoo.
(c) Derailing a train.
(d) Vandalizing a German officer's house.

13. What unusual food did Wicek like to eat?
(a) Fish.
(b) Peppers.
(c) Meat.
(d) Pickles.

14. What did Feliks Cywinski say was his happiest moment while rescuing Jews?
(a) Rescuing a toddler from the Ghetto.
(b) The birth of Regina Kenigswein's baby.
(c) The day the Ghetto was reopened.
(d) The end of the war when all of the Jews he was hiding could go free.

15. How was the siege on the Ghetto that was meant to remove or kill the remaining Jews there ended?
(a) The Germans burned everything.
(b) The Jews succeeded in pushing the Germans out of the Ghetto.
(c) The Jews were all taken to concentration camps.
(d) The remaining Jews were lined up in the streets and shot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Magdalena Gross's cryptonym?

2. What was the name of Rys's pet rooster?

3. What did Himmler study before the war?

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

5. What practice did Rabbi Shapira engage in to help himself deal with the suffering in the Ghetto?

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