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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who urged the people of Warsaw to accept Poland's surrender peacefully?
(a) Lutz Heck.
(b) Hitler.
(c) The mayor.
(d) General Rommel.

2. Where in the zoo did the Germans build a weapons storehouse?
(a) The lions' island.
(b) The polar bear enclosure.
(c) In the basement of the villa.
(d) The Pheasant House.

3. How many people were confined to the 20 blocks that constituted the Ghetto?
(a) 25,000.
(b) 400,000.
(c) 250,000.
(d) 100,000.

4. What was Jan collecting in the boxes he placed on shelves in the villa's kitchen?
(a) Springs for his research instruments.
(b) False documents.
(c) Fuses for bombs.
(d) Insects.

5. Who divorced her husband and staged her disappearance because she was Jewish and he was not?
(a) Ewa Brzuska.
(b) Magdalena Gross.
(c) Wanda Englert.
(d) Irena Sendler.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Antonina and Rys stay with when Jan was first ordered to join the army and the zoo was evacuated?

2. What were the racist laws that governed how much Jewish blood a person could have without being "tainted" called?

3. Where did the lynxes that Antonina adopted come from?

4. What did Lutz Heck take from the Warsaw Zoo in addition to valuable animals?

5. How did Rys first hear about the impending war?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Dr. Muller help Jan return to Warsaw?

2. Why did Antonina compare herself to a lioness when she was staying with her sister-in-law?

3. Why were the Warsaw Zoo’s polar bears shot by Polish soldiers?

4. Why did Jan suggest that the zoo be used to raise pigs?

5. Why did Jan purposely draw attention to himself when he was thanking Ziegler for bringing him to the Ghetto to see Szymon Tenenbaum?

6. What made Antonina feel hopeful at first when Lutz Heck came to visit the villa?

7. Why did the Germans take children with Aryan features to be raised in Germany?

8. How does the author describe the sounds of the zoo in the morning before the war?

9. What was Lutz Heck’s real plan in taking animals from the Warsaw Zoo?

10. Why did Antonina initially turn down Lutz Heck’s offer of help for the zoo?

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