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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. Which of the following was one of Lutz Heck's hobbies?

2. How old was Antonina when her parents were killed?

3. What is an aurochs?

4. Who helped Jan to return to Warsaw during the initial battle?

5. What theory did Lutz Heck reject?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did Dr. Muller help Jan return to Warsaw?

4. Why did Wanda and Adam Englert divorce?

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

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

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

8. Why did Jan suggest that the zoo be used to raise pigs?

9. How did Antonina describe her friend Magdalena?

10. Why was Antonina glad Rys was not with her when she travelled back to the country home after visiting Jan in Warsaw?

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

Ackerman writes about the location and history of Poland prior to World War II. Write an essay explaining why Poland’s location made it a target of the German army and how the history of Poland affected the way the people of Poland dealt with the war and the Holocaust.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay explaining how Ackerman uses the animal motif to explain the Nazi agenda of creating a master human race. Explain what the Nazi’s hoped to achieve and why and how Ackerman compares that to Lutz Heck’s goal of re-creating extinct species.

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