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

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 mother.
(c) Antonina's sister-in-law.
(d) Rys's teacher.

3. What were the racist laws that governed how much Jewish blood a person could have without being "tainted" called?
(a) The Nuremberg laws.
(b) Hitler's Edicts.
(c) The Aryan laws.
(d) The Himmler laws.

4. What event were Jan and Antonina preparing for when the war began?
(a) The International Association of Zoo Directors' annual meeting.
(b) The sale of the zoo to Germany.
(c) A tour of the zoo by important political figures.
(d) National Animal Awareness Day.

5. What was the punishment for harboring a Jew?
(a) 20 years in prison.
(b) Public flogging.
(c) An enormous fine.
(d) Death.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Antonina heard that the Polish army was going to surrender, who delivered a message to the contrary?

2. What book did Antonina and Rys read while Lutz Heck's shooting party was going on at the zoo?

3. What happened to Morys?

4. What theory did Lutz Heck reject?

5. Which of the following was one of Lutz Heck's hobbies?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why did Wanda and Adam Englert divorce?

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

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

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

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

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

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