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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) Talked to him about his behavior.
(b) Wrote him a letter.
(c) Gave him the silent treatement.
(d) Locked him out of the villa.

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

3. Which of the following words best describes Magdalena's personality?
(a) Sullen.
(b) Quiet.
(c) Nervous.
(d) Cheerful.

4. Who did the Zabinskis fire because they were uncertain of the person's trustworthiness?
(a) The housekeeper.
(b) Rys's tutor.
(c) A zoo guard.
(d) Fox Man.

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

6. Who tells Antonina about Rys's and his friend's plan to sabotage the Germans?
(a) Magdalena.
(b) Rys.
(c) Jan.
(d) The friend's mother.

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

8. Who saw Magdalena at the zoo and gossiped about it?
(a) A German soldier.
(b) A Polish zoo guard.
(c) The housekeeper.
(d) A mail carrier.

9. What condition does the author speculate caused Antonina to be bedridden?
(a) Tendonitis.
(b) Migraines.
(c) Multiple sclerosis.
(d) Phlebitis.

10. Where was Magdalena sent when she finally left the zoo?
(a) Scandinavia.
(b) To the Zabinski's country home.
(c) Saska Kepa.
(d) Rejentowka.

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

12. 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.

13. How did Genia escape when she was sent to Treblinka?
(a) She snuck off into the fields they were marching through to reach Treblinka.
(b) She jumped off the train.
(c) She disguised herself as a soldier.
(d) She bribed a soldier.

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

15. What were the people at the villa doing when they heard a rustling in the bushes by the window?
(a) Listening to Fox Man play the piano.
(b) Eating dinner.
(c) Cleaning the house.
(d) Sleeping.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the orphans call Janusz Korczak?

2. What was the name of Szymon Tenenbaum's wife?

3. What was Szczurcio?

4. What birthday present did Himmler want to give Hitler in 1943?

5. What did Himmler study before the war?

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