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

2. What practice did Rabbi Shapira engage in to help himself deal with the suffering in the Ghetto?
(a) Communing with nature.
(b) Writing poetry.
(c) Fishing.
(d) Fasting.

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) Snuck a Jewish boy out of the Ghetto.
(b) Shot a German.
(c) Set fire to German gas tanks.
(d) Bombed a haystack.

4. What unusual food did Wicek like to eat?
(a) Peppers.
(b) Fish.
(c) Meat.
(d) Pickles.

5. What name did the Zabinskis call Witold Wroblewski?
(a) Dr. Muller.
(b) Janusz Korczak.
(c) Fox Man.
(d) Maurycy.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What job did Antonina give Genia to disguise her while she lived at the zoo?

4. What is another name for the bottle grenades that Jews in the Ghetto used as a defense against the Germans?

5. What medical procedure did Jewish men sometimes have to help them pass as Aryan?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How did Zegota member Janina Buchholtz hide the presence of false papers in her office?

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

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

9. Why was Antonina confined to bed for several months?

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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