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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. How many boxes did Antonina recall there were in Szymon Tenenbaum's insect collection?
(a) 400.
(b) 800.
(c) 20.
(d) 50.

2. What did the orphans call Janusz Korczak?
(a) Pan Doctor.
(b) Papa.
(c) Zi.
(d) Janusz.

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

4. What did Himmler study before the war?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Agriculture.
(c) Art.
(d) Zoology.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who saw Magdalena at the zoo and gossiped about it?

2. How did Genia escape when she was sent to Treblinka?

3. Where is Szymon Tenenbaum's insect collection today?

4. What season was it when Antonina was finally able to leave her bed after months of convalescing?

5. What animal is thought to be the cause of the death of much of Napoleon's army?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reason did Mrs. Dewitzowa give Antonina for sending Magdalena and Maurycy back to the zoo?

2. How did Zegota member Janina Buchholtz hide the presence of false papers in her office?

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

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

5. How did Jan’s observations about animal behaviors help him in his Underground work?

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

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

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

10. Why did Jan and Antonina carry cyanide pills with them?

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