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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. Which of the following words best describes Magdalena's personality?
(a) Quiet.
(b) Sullen.
(c) Cheerful.
(d) Nervous.

2. What is another name for the bottle grenades that Jews in the Ghetto used as a defense against the Germans?
(a) Molotov cocktail.
(b) German growler.
(c) Bottle bomb.
(d) Gasoline grenade.

3. How did the Polish Underground learn of Treblinka?
(a) From a German soldier who was a spy for the Underground.
(b) Through a coded letter.
(c) A member of the Underground escaped Treblinka and reported back.
(d) Through a German newspaper.

4. What was the name of Antonina's children's book about lynxes?
(a) The Wild Lynx.
(b) A Lynx Tale.
(c) Tofi and Tufa.
(d) Rysie.

5. How did Antonina know Regina Kenigswein's father?
(a) He was a friend of Jan's father.
(b) He was a groundskeeper at the zoo.
(c) He supplied fruit to the zoo before the war.
(d) He was Rys's teacher.

Short Answer Questions

1. What excuse did Irena Sendler use to gain access to the Ghetto?

2. What did the villa Guests do to let Jan know they did not like the way he was treating Antonina?

3. What did Antonina convince the German soldier was the cause of the fire at the barracks on the zoo grounds?

4. Why was the school Jan taught at while he was part of the Underground called a "flying university?"

5. What job did Antonina give Genia to disguise her while she lived at the zoo?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Janusz Korczak’s story about an astronomer named Zi who lived on the planet Ro, why did Zi consider destroying Earth?

2. How did the people at the villa feel when they heard about the Ghetto Uprising?

3. Why do the Poles claim Janusz Korczak as a martyr?

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

5. What did Feliks Cywinski do periodically to hide the fact that he was rescuing Jews?

6. What did Antonina write in her journal that the author said was as close as she ever got to writing about being an orphan?

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

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

9. Why does Ackerman describe Wicek the rabbit as a “fat, furry thug”?

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

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