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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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.

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

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

8. What was Janusz Korczak's real name?
(a) Szymon Tenenbaum.
(b) Maurycy Fraenkel.
(c) Adam Englert.
(d) Henryk Goldszmit.

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

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

11. What percentage of the Orthodox community was lost during World War II?
(a) 20%.
(b) 90%.
(c) 75%.
(d) 50%.

12. What did Magdalena compare Antonina to when Jan was praising her for managing the situation with the German soldier during the fire at the barracks?
(a) A chimpanzee.
(b) A lioness.
(c) A mother badger.
(d) A fox.

13. How did the Polish Underground learn of Treblinka?
(a) Through a coded letter.
(b) From a German soldier who was a spy for the Underground.
(c) Through a German newspaper.
(d) A member of the Underground escaped Treblinka and reported back.

14. 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) Locked him out of the villa.
(c) Wrote him a letter.
(d) Talked to him about his behavior.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who kept vigil with Rys while he waited for his father to return at curfew?

2. What did Rys find the boys who hid in the Pheasant House surrounded by when he went in to introduce himself?

3. What caused Rys to be hospitalized in the winter of 1943?

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

5. What was Magdalena Gross's cryptonym?

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