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

2. Which Guest's leaving made Antonina the most sad?
(a) Magdalena's.
(b) Fox Man's.
(c) Regina's.
(d) Maurycy's.

3. Where is Szymon Tenenbaum's insect collection today?
(a) The Natural History Museum.
(b) It has been destroyed.
(c) The State Zoological Museum.
(d) The Warsaw Zoo.

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

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

6. How did Antonina know Regina Kenigswein's father?
(a) He was a groundskeeper at the zoo.
(b) He was a friend of Jan's father.
(c) He supplied fruit to the zoo before the war.
(d) He was Rys's teacher.

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

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

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

10. 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 smarter than she was.
(c) Because he was the one who fed the Guests in the animal enclosures.
(d) Because she was a woman.

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

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

13. 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 lioness.
(b) A fox.
(c) A chimpanzee.
(d) A mother badger.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What season was it when Antonina was finally able to leave her bed after months of convalescing?

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

3. What had the boys that Jan discovered hiding in the bushes at the villa done that they needed to hide at the zoo?

4. What did Himmler study before the war?

5. What animal is thought to be the cause of the death of much of Napoleon's army?

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