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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 the Germans refuse to purchase for the pigs?
(a) Deworming medicine.
(b) Vaccinations.
(c) Straw.
(d) Vitamins.

2. What was Jan's cryptonym?
(a) Starling.
(b) Francis.
(c) Wicek.
(d) Tuzinka.

3. Where did the lynxes that Antonina adopted come from?
(a) The Washington Zoo.
(b) A North American wildlife preserve.
(c) The Bialowieza Forest.
(d) The Berlin Zoo.

4. 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) Had their meat laced with poison and delivered to the German army.
(c) Buried them in the garden.
(d) Had them butchered and their meat distributed to the hungry.

5. Who told Antonina that the Polish army was planning to surrender?
(a) Magdalena Gross.
(b) Maurycy Fraenkel.
(c) Szymon Tenenbaum.
(d) Adam Englert.

Short Answer Questions

1. What name did Jewish women with Aryan-sounding names have to change their names to?

2. How did Rys first hear about the impending war?

3. What did the director of the slaughterhouse want to turn the zoo into?

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

5. Where did Jan build an ammunitions dump for the Home Army?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the Resistance use cryptonyms?

2. What was special about the baby elephant Tuzinka?

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

4. What was Lutz Heck’s real plan in taking animals from the Warsaw Zoo?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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