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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 24 - 30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Feliks Cywinski say was his happiest moment while rescuing Jews?
(a) The end of the war when all of the Jews he was hiding could go free.
(b) The birth of Regina Kenigswein's baby.
(c) The day the Ghetto was reopened.
(d) Rescuing a toddler from the Ghetto.

2. What skill did Antonina's grandmother send her to school to study?
(a) Piano.
(b) Bookkeeping.
(c) Painting.
(d) Sewing.

3. What were the racist laws that governed how much Jewish blood a person could have without being "tainted" called?
(a) The Aryan laws.
(b) The Nuremberg laws.
(c) Hitler's Edicts.
(d) The Himmler laws.

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

5. According to legend, what did the word Poland sound like in Hebrew that made the Jews want to go there?
(a) Beautiful garden.
(b) Rest here.
(c) Sanctuary.
(d) Paradise.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Genia escape when she was sent to Treblinka?

2. Who did the Zabinskis fire because they were uncertain of the person's trustworthiness?

3. What excuse did Irena Sendler use to gain access to the Ghetto?

4. What condition does the author speculate caused Antonina to be bedridden?

5. What happened to the littermates of the baby hamster that Jan gave to Rys?

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