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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the race of "pure" humans that the Nazis sought to create called?

2. What area of the city was directly across the river from the zoo?

3. When Antonina ventured outside of the store they were sheltered in, what did she see falling from the sky?

4. Who urged the people of Warsaw to accept Poland's surrender peacefully?

5. What skill did Antonina's grandmother send her to school to study?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why were Antonina’s parents killed when she was nine?

2. What special ability did Antonina have that Jan described as “metaphysical waves”?

3. How does the author describe the sounds of the zoo in the morning before the war?

4. What was special about the baby elephant Tuzinka?

5. What was Lutz Heck’s real plan in taking animals from the Warsaw Zoo?

6. Why were the Warsaw Zoo’s polar bears shot by Polish soldiers?

7. Why did the Germans take children with Aryan features to be raised in Germany?

8. How did Antonina describe her friend Magdalena?

9. What made Antonina feel hopeful at first when Lutz Heck came to visit the villa?

10. What was unusual about the baby badger that Antonina raised?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay explaining the author’s development and use of the theme of courage. What suggestion does the author make about courage? How does she use people to strengthen the theme?

Essay Topic 2

Music is mentioned frequently in The Zookeeper’s Wife. Write an essay that discusses the importance of music in Antonina’s life and how she used it to help her Guests endure the war.

Essay Topic 3

When Maurycy is renamed Pawel (Paul), he gives the hamster a new name, Piotr (Peter), and says they will be like the disciples. Write an essay that explains what Maurycy means by this and what or who they will be disciples of.

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