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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. Where is Szymon Tenenbaum's insect collection today?
(a) It has been destroyed.
(b) The Natural History Museum.
(c) The Warsaw Zoo.
(d) The State Zoological Museum.

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

3. How did Antonina know Regina Kenigswein's father?
(a) He was a friend of Jan's father.
(b) He was a groundskeeper at the zoo.
(c) He was Rys's teacher.
(d) He supplied fruit to the zoo before the war.

4. What kind of face did Nazi Posters depict Jewish people as having?
(a) Snake-like.
(b) Rat-like.
(c) Horse-like.
(d) Devil-like.

5. What percentage of the Orthodox community was lost during World War II?
(a) 90%.
(b) 20%.
(c) 50%.
(d) 75%.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Janina Buchholtz, a member of Zegota, help Jan and Antonina rescue Jews?

2. What were Jews passing as Aryans called?

3. What birthday present did Himmler want to give Hitler in 1943?

4. How did the Polish government smuggle money into Poland while they were exiled and based in London?

5. What was Magdalena Gross's cryptonym?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Jan talk to Rys as though he were a soldier when he confronted the boy about his plan to bomb a haystack?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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