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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8 - 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Lutz Heck's profession before the war?
(a) He was a veterinarian.
(b) He was the director of the Berlin Zoo.
(c) He was a lawyer.
(d) He was a professor at the college Jan attended.

2. What did the people of Warsaw gather in the streets to see after Poland surrendered?
(a) Hitler delivering a speech.
(b) The Polish soldiers being taken to a POW camp.
(c) The German army entering the city.
(d) The animals escaping from the zoo.

3. What was the punishment for harboring a Jew?
(a) Death.
(b) Public flogging.
(c) 20 years in prison.
(d) An enormous fine.

4. How many people were confined to the 20 blocks that constituted the Ghetto?
(a) 25,000.
(b) 250,000.
(c) 400,000.
(d) 100,000.

5. Who sent fruit and vegetable peelings to the zoo to feed the animals in the fall after Warsaw's surrender?
(a) The people of Warsaw.
(b) Hitler.
(c) Dr. Muller.
(d) Lutz Heck.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Jan collecting in the boxes he placed on shelves in the villa's kitchen?

2. What was the name of the river that bordered the zoo?

3. What song did Antonina play on the piano as a warning signal for the Guests?

4. What book did Antonina and Rys read while Lutz Heck's shooting party was going on at the zoo?

5. Which of the following is an extinct animal that Lutz Heck hoped to re-create?

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