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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 was the name of Antonina's children's book about lynxes?

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

3. How old was Janusz Korczak when the deportations to the death camps began?

4. How did the Polish government smuggle money into Poland while they were exiled and based in London?

5. What job did Antonina give Genia to disguise her while she lived at the zoo?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How was Mrs. Walter helping Jews to hide?

4. How did Zegota member Janina Buchholtz hide the presence of false papers in her office?

5. What did Antonina write in her journal that the author said was as close as she ever got to writing about being an orphan?

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

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

8. What did Feliks Cywinski do periodically to hide the fact that he was rescuing Jews?

9. Why did Jan talk to Rys as though he were a soldier when he confronted the boy about his plan to bomb a haystack?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

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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