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

2. Who did Antonina and Rys stay with when Jan was first ordered to join the army and the zoo was evacuated?
(a) Jan's mother.
(b) Antonina's sister-in-law.
(c) Rys's teacher.
(d) Antonina's mother.

3. What did Jan and Antonina do with the dead antelopes, deer, and horses after the initial attack on Warsaw?
(a) Had them butchered and their meat distributed to the hungry.
(b) Had their meat laced with poison and delivered to the German army.
(c) Buried them in the garden.
(d) Left their corpses to rot to deter the German soldiers from moving into the zoo.

4. Where did Ewa Brzuska (Granny) hide Jews who were on their way to other locations?
(a) In her barn.
(b) In her lampshade shop.
(c) In her kitchen.
(d) In her grocery store.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who urged the people of Warsaw to accept Poland's surrender peacefully?

3. When Antonina ventured outside of the store they were sheltered in, what did she see falling from the sky?

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

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

3. Why did Wanda and Adam Englert divorce?

4. What special ability did Antonina have that Jan described as “metaphysical waves”?

5. Why was Antonina glad Rys was not with her when she travelled back to the country home after visiting Jan in Warsaw?

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

7. Why did the Resistance use cryptonyms?

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

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

10. Why did the Zabinskis frequently invite non-Jewish visitors to the villa?

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