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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 is another name for the bottle grenades that Jews in the Ghetto used as a defense against the Germans?
2. What did Himmler study before the war?
3. How did Antonina know Regina Kenigswein's father?
4. What did Magdalena compare Antonina to when Jan was praising her for managing the situation with the German soldier during the fire at the barracks?
5. What did Jan give the German president that changed his mind about reopening the Warsaw Zoo?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Feliks Cywinski do periodically to hide the fact that he was rescuing Jews?
2. Why were the boys hiding in the Pheasant House confused when Rys introduced himself?
3. How did Zegota member Janina Buchholtz hide the presence of false papers in her office?
4. Why was it difficult for some Jews to change their names in order to go into hiding?
5. Why was Rys the one usually chosen to deliver meals to Guests staying in animal enclosures?
6. In Janusz Korczak’s story about an astronomer named Zi who lived on the planet Ro, why did Zi consider destroying Earth?
7. Why was Antonina confined to bed for several months?
8. Why did Jan talk to Rys as though he were a soldier when he confronted the boy about his plan to bomb a haystack?
9. How was Mrs. Walter helping Jews to hide?
10. How did Jan’s observations about animal behaviors help him in his Underground work?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay describing how the author develops the theme of what makes a house a home. How does Antonina make the villa a home even after the war starts? How does she make the schoolhouse a home?
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay discussing the importance of Szymon Tenenbaum’s insect collection. What did the collection say about Tenenbaum? Why was it important to the Underground? What does the collection symbolize?
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that explains how Ackerman develops the theme of family and what she suggests makes a group of individuals into a family.
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