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

2. What was Magdalena Gross's cryptonym?
(a) Rabbit.
(b) Sparrow.
(c) Starling.
(d) Goose.

3. What word was used to refer to a Jewish hiding place that had been discovered?
(a) Bombed.
(b) Flooded.
(c) Razed.
(d) Burnt.

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

5. How did the Polish government smuggle money into Poland while they were exiled and based in London?
(a) Strapped to parachutists.
(b) With German soldiers who were sympathetic to the Poles.
(c) Through the mail.
(d) With animals that were sent to the zoo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Magdalena's presence at the villa pose a greater threat to the other Guests?

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

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

4. What did Rys do during the winter days when Jan was at work?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why did Antonina consider Fox Man’s cat, Balbina, a good citizen of the villa?

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

9. How did the Kenigsweins smuggle their two young boys out of the Ghetto?

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

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