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

2. What was the name of Rys's pet rooster?
(a) Morys.
(b) Wicek.
(c) Balbina.
(d) Kuba.

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

4. 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.

5. What were the people at the villa doing when they heard a rustling in the bushes by the window?
(a) Listening to Fox Man play the piano.
(b) Cleaning the house.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Eating dinner.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What practice did Rabbi Shapira engage in to help himself deal with the suffering in the Ghetto?

3. What word was used to refer to a Jewish hiding place that had been discovered?

4. Where was Magdalena sent when she finally left the zoo?

5. Who tells Antonina about Rys's and his friend's plan to sabotage the Germans?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How did Jan’s observations about animal behaviors help him in his Underground work?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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