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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 Antonina send with Jan to deliver when he went into the Ghetto to collect scraps to feed the pigs?
(a) Clothing donations.
(b) Letters.
(c) Books.
(d) Packets of food.

2. What animal did Jan raise at the zoo to feed German soldiers?
(a) Rabbits.
(b) Pigs.
(c) Sheep.
(d) Cattle.

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

4. What task did Antonina sometimes do in the middle of the night?
(a) Baking.
(b) Midwife a zoo animal.
(c) Cleaning animal cages.
(d) Washing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What skill did Antonina's grandmother send her to school to study?

2. Why did Jan and Antonina think Lutz Heck might help them?

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

4. What was the name of the river that bordered the zoo?

5. What was Magdalena's profession?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why did the Resistance use cryptonyms?

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

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

10. How did Antonina describe her friend Magdalena?

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