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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 Rys told about the Guests who stayed at the zoo?
(a) That they were fellow zookeepers.
(b) That they were German soldiers.
(c) That they were all colleagues of his father.
(d) That he had to keep them a secret.

2. Where in the zoo did the Germans build a weapons storehouse?
(a) The lions' island.
(b) The polar bear enclosure.
(c) The Pheasant House.
(d) In the basement of the villa.

3. What task did Antonina sometimes do in the middle of the night?
(a) Cleaning animal cages.
(b) Baking.
(c) Midwife a zoo animal.
(d) Washing.

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

5. What was the name of the river that bordered the zoo?
(a) Bug River.
(b) Warta.
(c) Vistula.
(d) Rhine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Jan's cryptonym?

2. Which of the following was an entomologist?

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

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

5. What were the racist laws that governed how much Jewish blood a person could have without being "tainted" called?

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