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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 had the boys that Jan discovered hiding in the bushes at the villa done that they needed to hide at the zoo?

2. What season was it when Antonina was finally able to leave her bed after months of convalescing?

3. What was Magdalena Gross's cryptonym?

4. What talent did Fox Man entertain the Guests with?

5. How did Janina Buchholtz, a member of Zegota, help Jan and Antonina rescue Jews?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did the Jews respond to Himmler trying to liquidate the remaining Jews in the Ghetto in 1943?

3. Why did Rabbi Shapira think it was important for Jews in the Ghetto to commune with nature?

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

5. Why do the Poles claim Janusz Korczak as a martyr?

6. How did Jan’s observations about animal behaviors help him in his Underground work?

7. Why was Fox Man’s offer of a bookkeeping job so important to Maurycy Fraenkel?

8. Why did Jan and Antonina carry cyanide pills with them?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 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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