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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 talent did Fox Man entertain the Guests with?

2. What were Jews passing as Aryans called?

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

4. Which Guest's leaving made Antonina the most sad?

5. What caused Rys to be hospitalized in the winter of 1943?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why was Rys the one usually chosen to deliver meals to Guests staying in animal enclosures?

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

8. Why does Ackerman describe Wicek the rabbit as a “fat, furry thug”?

9. What nearly ruined Jan’s plan to bring Lonia Tenenbaum out of the Ghetto?

10. Why did Antonina consider Fox Man’s cat, Balbina, a good citizen of the villa?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Describe Antonina and how her life at the zoo prepared her to help Jan rescue Jews during the war. What was Antonina like before the war? How did her personality affect the way she treated the Guests? What skills helped her to survive the war?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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