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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 was the siege on the Ghetto that was meant to remove or kill the remaining Jews there ended?
(a) The Jews succeeded in pushing the Germans out of the Ghetto.
(b) The remaining Jews were lined up in the streets and shot.
(c) The Jews were all taken to concentration camps.
(d) The Germans burned everything.

2. Who saw Magdalena at the zoo and gossiped about it?
(a) A German soldier.
(b) The housekeeper.
(c) A Polish zoo guard.
(d) A mail carrier.

3. What name did the Zabinskis call Witold Wroblewski?
(a) Maurycy.
(b) Fox Man.
(c) Janusz Korczak.
(d) Dr. Muller.

4. What did the villa Guests do to let Jan know they did not like the way he was treating Antonina?
(a) Talked to him about his behavior.
(b) Gave him the silent treatement.
(c) Wrote him a letter.
(d) Locked him out of the villa.

5. Who did the Zabinskis fire because they were uncertain of the person's trustworthiness?
(a) Fox Man.
(b) Rys's tutor.
(c) A zoo guard.
(d) The housekeeper.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following words best describes Magdalena's personality?

2. What were Jews passing as Aryans called?

3. Which of the following did Polish folklore say meant that death was near?

4. Where did Szczurcio hide when he escaped his cage?

5. Where was Magdalena sent when she finally left the zoo?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why did the Nazi’s portray Jews with rat-like faces in their propaganda?

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

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. How was Mrs. Walter helping Jews to hide?

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

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