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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 was Magdalena Gross's cryptonym?
(a) Goose.
(b) Rabbit.
(c) Starling.
(d) Sparrow.

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

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

4. How did the Polish Underground learn of Treblinka?
(a) A member of the Underground escaped Treblinka and reported back.
(b) Through a coded letter.
(c) From a German soldier who was a spy for the Underground.
(d) Through a German newspaper.

5. What happened to the littermates of the baby hamster that Jan gave to Rys?
(a) They were confiscated by a German soldier to give to his children.
(b) They were used for experiments.
(c) They were eaten by a cat.
(d) Their mother killed them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What talent did Fox Man entertain the Guests with?

2. How did Antonina know Regina Kenigswein's father?

3. What did the orphans call Janusz Korczak?

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

5. What animal did Magdalena Gross sculpt as a gift for Jan?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the Kenigsweins smuggle their two young boys out of the Ghetto?

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

4. What reason did Mrs. Dewitzowa give Antonina for sending Magdalena and Maurycy back to the zoo?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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