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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of Rys's pet rooster?
(a) Kuba.
(b) Wicek.
(c) Balbina.
(d) Morys.

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

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

4. What did Himmler study before the war?
(a) Agriculture.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Art.
(d) Zoology.

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

6. What excuse did Irena Sendler use to gain access to the Ghetto?
(a) Running an orphanage.
(b) Setting up a station to deal with infectious diseases.
(c) Starting a school for the Jewish children.
(d) Checking for illegal marriages.

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

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

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

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

11. Who is never mentioned in Antonina's memoirs?
(a) Her children.
(b) Her parents.
(c) Magdalena.
(d) Jan.

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

13. What did Jan give the German president that changed his mind about reopening the Warsaw Zoo?
(a) A bribe.
(b) A plan for opening a substandard zoo.
(c) An inflated budget estimate.
(d) A plan that did not include any German animals.

14. What did the orphans call Janusz Korczak?
(a) Zi.
(b) Pan Doctor.
(c) Papa.
(d) Janusz.

15. 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 she was a woman.
(d) Because he was smarter than she was.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What talent did Fox Man entertain the Guests with?

5. Where did Szczurcio hide when he escaped his cage?

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