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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 did the director of the slaughterhouse want to turn the zoo into?

2. What was Jan collecting in the boxes he placed on shelves in the villa's kitchen?

3. Which of the following is an extinct animal that Lutz Heck hoped to re-create?

4. Where did Jan build an ammunitions dump for the Home Army?

5. What did Antonina feed the Guests that she passed off as pheasant?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why did Antonina initially turn down Lutz Heck’s offer of help for the zoo?

4. Why were Jan and Antonina so frightened when they witnessed a trolley being bombed?

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

6. Why did Antonina compare herself to a lioness when she was staying with her sister-in-law?

7. Why was Antonina shocked by what Lutz Heck said about Germany’s chances of the war?

8. Why did Lutz Heck want to re-create the aurochs?

9. What was special about the baby elephant Tuzinka?

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 describing how Rys changed from before the war until the time when they return to Warsaw after the Uprising. How did the war affect his relationships with other people? Did the war have lasting effects on Rys?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay about the importance of Janusz Korczak to the book. Why does the author include his story? How does the author use his story to develop themes? What impact does his story have on readers?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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