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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 did Feliks Cywinski say was his happiest moment while rescuing Jews?
(a) The end of the war when all of the Jews he was hiding could go free.
(b) The day the Ghetto was reopened.
(c) The birth of Regina Kenigswein's baby.
(d) Rescuing a toddler from the Ghetto.

2. Where was Magdalena sent when she finally left the zoo?
(a) To the Zabinski's country home.
(b) Scandinavia.
(c) Saska Kepa.
(d) Rejentowka.

3. What birthday present did Himmler want to give Hitler in 1943?
(a) The complete destruction of the city of Warsaw.
(b) The liquidation of the rest of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
(c) A European bison.
(d) The death of all the Poles in Warsaw.

4. Which of the following did Polish folklore say meant that death was near?
(a) A bird flying into a window.
(b) Dropping a piece of silverware.
(c) A rooster crowing when it was not dawn.
(d) A broom falling for no reason.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did the Polish Underground learn of Treblinka?

3. What did Antonina do to try to draw less attention to the Kenigsweins so they could be moved?

4. Why did Rys tell his mother he knew more about keeping wartime secrets than she did?

5. What did Himmler study before the war?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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