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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. What kind of tree drew bees to the zoo?
(a) Cherry.
(b) Oak.
(c) Pine.
(d) Linden.

2. How many calories per day were Jews rationed?
(a) 669.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 184.
(d) 2,613.

3. What kind of animal was Rys's pet named Morys?
(a) Lynx.
(b) Cockatoo.
(c) Pig.
(d) Rabbit.

4. What language was illegal to speak in Warsaw during the German occupation?
(a) German.
(b) Polish.
(c) French.
(d) Hebrew.

5. What did Hitler do to justify an attack on Poland?
(a) Portrayed the Jews as evil people who needed to be exterminated.
(b) Staged a phony attack on a German border town.
(c) Claimed the Jews were planning to invade Germany.
(d) Claimed Poland was building up weapons to attack Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was explorer Ernst Schafer sent to locate?

2. What was Jan's cryptonym?

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

4. What element of zoo design did Lutz Heck advocate for?

5. How many people were confined to the 20 blocks that constituted the Ghetto?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Lutz Heck hold the shooting part at the zoo on New Year’s Eve?

3. Why did Lutz Heck want to re-create the aurochs?

4. Why were Antonina’s parents killed when she was nine?

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

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

7. Why were Jan and Antonina so frightened when they witnessed a trolley being bombed?

8. Why did Wanda and Adam Englert divorce?

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

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

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