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

2. What had the boys that Jan discovered hiding in the bushes at the villa done that they needed to hide at the zoo?
(a) Snuck a Jewish boy out of the Ghetto.
(b) Shot a German.
(c) Bombed a haystack.
(d) Set fire to German gas tanks.

3. Where did Szczurcio hide when he escaped his cage?
(a) In the Pheasant House.
(b) In the garden.
(c) In the chimney.
(d) Under Rys's bed.

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

5. How old was Janusz Korczak when the deportations to the death camps began?
(a) 64.
(b) 56.
(c) 35.
(d) 82.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the littermates of the baby hamster that Jan gave to Rys?

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

3. What kind of face did Nazi Posters depict Jewish people as having?

4. Who were the Sables?

5. About how many people did Jan say were rescued through the zoo?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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