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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. Which of the following was an entomologist?
(a) Szymon Tenenbaum.
(b) Magdalena Gross.
(c) Lutz Heck.
(d) Maurycy Fraenkel.

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

3. How did Jan and Antonina know the German soldier who came to the villa to tell them that Lutz Heck wanted to see them?
(a) He was a former employee of the Warsaw Zoo.
(b) He was a classmate of Jan's.
(c) He was a classmate of Antonina's.
(d) He was a guard at the Berlin Zoo.

4. Which animals were the first that a visitor to the zoo would see?
(a) Giraffes.
(b) Flamingos.
(c) Rhesus monkeys.
(d) Elephants.

5. What did Antonina feed the Guests that she passed off as pheasant?
(a) Flamingos.
(b) Starlings.
(c) Crows.
(d) Pigeons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Antonina send with Jan to deliver when he went into the Ghetto to collect scraps to feed the pigs?

2. What does Rys mean in Polish?

3. What did Hitler do to justify an attack on Poland?

4. What was Antonina's father's occupation?

5. Who divorced her husband and staged her disappearance because she was Jewish and he was not?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was unusual about the baby badger that Antonina raised?

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

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

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

6. Why did the Resistance use cryptonyms?

7. How did Antonina describe her friend Magdalena?

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

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

10. What was special about the baby elephant Tuzinka?

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