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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 was the baby elephant's name?
(a) Kasia.
(b) Wicek.
(c) Kuba.
(d) Tuzinka.

2. 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 guard at the Berlin Zoo.
(b) He was a classmate of Jan's.
(c) He was a former employee of the Warsaw Zoo.
(d) He was a classmate of Antonina's.

3. What did the director of the slaughterhouse want to turn the zoo into?
(a) A German herbal plant company.
(b) A training camp for soldiers.
(c) A horse farm.
(d) A meat processing plant.

4. When Antonina ventured outside of the store they were sheltered in, what did she see falling from the sky?
(a) Birds.
(b) Parachutes attached to supplies for the Germans.
(c) Feathers.
(d) Ash.

5. Who ruled Warsaw after the surrender?
(a) Dr. Muller.
(b) Adam Englert.
(c) Lutz Heck.
(d) Hans Frank.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Rys told about the Guests who stayed at the zoo?

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

3. What theory did Lutz Heck reject?

4. What area of the city was directly across the river from the zoo?

5. What happened to Morys?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why was Antonina shocked by what Lutz Heck said about Germany’s chances of the war?

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

4. Why did Jan feel such a strong connection with the Jews?

5. How did Antonina describe her friend Magdalena?

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

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

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

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

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

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