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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 job did Antonina give Genia to disguise her while she lived at the zoo?
(a) Cook.
(b) Tailor.
(c) Housekeeper.
(d) Tutor.

2. Why did Rys tell his mother he knew more about keeping wartime secrets than she did?
(a) Because Jan had told Rys secrets that he had not told Antonina.
(b) Because he was smarter than she was.
(c) Because he was the one who fed the Guests in the animal enclosures.
(d) Because she was a woman.

3. Which Guest's leaving made Antonina the most sad?
(a) Regina's.
(b) Maurycy's.
(c) Fox Man's.
(d) Magdalena's.

4. Who sold his own house to purchase apartments to hide Jews in?
(a) Rabbi Shapira.
(b) Feliks Cywinski.
(c) Samuel Kenigswein.
(d) Janusz Korczak.

5. What caused Rys to be hospitalized in the winter of 1943?
(a) Appendicitis.
(b) Pneumonia.
(c) A broken leg.
(d) Typhus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Himmler study before the war?

2. What were the people at the villa doing when they heard a rustling in the bushes by the window?

3. How many boxes did Antonina recall there were in Szymon Tenenbaum's insect collection?

4. Who did the German soldier blame for a fire at the barracks on the zoo grounds?

5. What was the name of Antonina's children's book about lynxes?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Fox Man’s offer of a bookkeeping job so important to Maurycy Fraenkel?

2. Why was Antonina confined to bed for several months?

3. Why was it difficult for some Jews to change their names in order to go into hiding?

4. Why were the boys hiding in the Pheasant House confused when Rys introduced himself?

5. What nearly ruined Jan’s plan to bring Lonia Tenenbaum out of the Ghetto?

6. Why did Rabbi Shapira think it was important for Jews in the Ghetto to commune with nature?

7. How did Magdalena Gross get the cryptonym “Starling”?

8. How was Mrs. Walter helping Jews to hide?

9. Why did Jan talk to Rys as though he were a soldier when he confronted the boy about his plan to bomb a haystack?

10. How did the Jews respond to Himmler trying to liquidate the remaining Jews in the Ghetto in 1943?

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