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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. What talent did Fox Man entertain the Guests with?
(a) Singing.
(b) Painting.
(c) Playing piano.
(d) Telling stories.

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

3. What animal is thought to be the cause of the death of much of Napoleon's army?
(a) Louse.
(b) Mosquito.
(c) Rat.
(d) Bird.

4. What was Janusz Korczak's real name?
(a) Szymon Tenenbaum.
(b) Adam Englert.
(c) Maurycy Fraenkel.
(d) Henryk Goldszmit.

5. Where did historian Ringelblum hide documents that described what happened in Warsaw during the war?
(a) Inside the wall around the Ghetto.
(b) Milk churns.
(c) In coffins buried in graveyards.
(d) In boxes kept at the zoo.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was the siege on the Ghetto that was meant to remove or kill the remaining Jews there ended?

2. What did Rys find the boys who hid in the Pheasant House surrounded by when he went in to introduce himself?

3. What did Fox Man use as a wet nurse for the baby foxes?

4. How old was Janusz Korczak when the deportations to the death camps began?

5. What were the people at the villa doing when they heard a rustling in the bushes by the window?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Rys the one usually chosen to deliver meals to Guests staying in animal enclosures?

2. How did the Jews respond to Himmler trying to liquidate the remaining Jews in the Ghetto in 1943?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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