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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. Where is Szymon Tenenbaum's insect collection today?
2. Who is never mentioned in Antonina's memoirs?
3. What did Antonina convince the German soldier was the cause of the fire at the barracks on the zoo grounds?
4. What were Jews passing as Aryans called?
5. What word was used to refer to a Jewish hiding place that had been discovered?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did the people at the villa feel when they heard about the Ghetto Uprising?
2. How did the Kenigsweins smuggle their two young boys out of the Ghetto?
3. What did Antonina write in her journal that the author said was as close as she ever got to writing about being an orphan?
4. Why was Rys the one usually chosen to deliver meals to Guests staying in animal enclosures?
5. What nearly ruined Jan’s plan to bring Lonia Tenenbaum out of the Ghetto?
6. Why did Antonina consider Fox Man’s cat, Balbina, a good citizen of the villa?
7. What reason did Mrs. Dewitzowa give Antonina for sending Magdalena and Maurycy back to the zoo?
8. How did Zegota member Janina Buchholtz hide the presence of false papers in her office?
9. Why was it difficult for some Jews to change their names in order to go into hiding?
10. In Janusz Korczak’s story about an astronomer named Zi who lived on the planet Ro, why did Zi consider destroying Earth?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay that explains how Ackerman develops the theme of family and what she suggests makes a group of individuals into a family.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay explaining the author’s choice to write about modern-day Poland in the final chapter. What purpose does this serve? What message does the author hope to leave readers with?
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay about the animals that shared the Zabinskis’ home. Why does Ackerman write about them? What was their importance to the people at the villa? How does Ackerman use their stories to explain or mirror things that are going on in the human world?
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