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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. According to legend, what did the word Poland sound like in Hebrew that made the Jews want to go there?
(a) Beautiful garden.
(b) Paradise.
(c) Sanctuary.
(d) Rest here.

2. 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) Ash.
(d) Feathers.

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

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

5. After Antonina heard that the Polish army was going to surrender, who delivered a message to the contrary?
(a) The mayor of Warsaw.
(b) The Polish president.
(c) Hitler.
(d) Jan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of store did Antonina and Rys seek shelter in when Antonina thought the fourth floor apartment was not safe?

2. What was explorer Ernst Schafer sent to locate?

3. What responsibility did Antonina attend to each day at the zoo following her breakfast?

4. Where did Ewa Brzuska (Granny) hide Jews who were on their way to other locations?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why did the Resistance use cryptonyms?

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

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

6. Why did Wanda and Adam Englert divorce?

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

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

9. What made Antonina feel hopeful at first when Lutz Heck came to visit the villa?

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

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