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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Maurycy rename the hamster?
(a) Isaac.
(b) Piotr.
(c) Pawel.
(d) Jacob.

2. What was the cryptonym for the Council to Aid the Jews?
(a) Weronika.
(b) Ziegler.
(c) Zegota.
(d) Jacob.

3. What was Maurycy Fraenkel's profession?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Rabbi.

4. What season was it when Antonina was finally able to leave her bed after months of convalescing?
(a) Winter.
(b) Spring.
(c) Summer.
(d) Fall.

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

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

7. What did Rys find the boys who hid in the Pheasant House surrounded by when he went in to introduce himself?
(a) Pheasants.
(b) Rabbits.
(c) Rats.
(d) Chickens.

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

9. Who were the Sables?
(a) The Fraenkel family.
(b) The Tenenbaum family.
(c) The Kenigswein family.
(d) The Kokot family.

10. What had the boys that Jan discovered hiding in the bushes at the villa done that they needed to hide at the zoo?
(a) Snuck a Jewish boy out of the Ghetto.
(b) Shot a German.
(c) Bombed a haystack.
(d) Set fire to German gas tanks.

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

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

13. Who sold his own house to purchase apartments to hide Jews in?
(a) Samuel Kenigswein.
(b) Rabbi Shapira.
(c) Janusz Korczak.
(d) Feliks Cywinski.

14. What practice did Rabbi Shapira engage in to help himself deal with the suffering in the Ghetto?
(a) Fasting.
(b) Fishing.
(c) Communing with nature.
(d) Writing poetry.

15. What name did the Zabinskis call Witold Wroblewski?
(a) Fox Man.
(b) Janusz Korczak.
(c) Dr. Muller.
(d) Maurycy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Janusz Korczak's real name?

2. Why did Rys tell his mother he knew more about keeping wartime secrets than she did?

3. What were Jews passing as Aryans called?

4. What percentage of the Orthodox community was lost during World War II?

5. What were the people at the villa doing when they heard a rustling in the bushes by the window?

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