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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 animal frequently followed Jan around the zoo on his daily bicycle tours?
(a) An elk.
(b) A camel.
(c) A lynx.
(d) A baby elephant.

2. How did the Polish government smuggle money into Poland while they were exiled and based in London?
(a) Strapped to parachutists.
(b) Through the mail.
(c) With German soldiers who were sympathetic to the Poles.
(d) With animals that were sent to the zoo.

3. What birthday present did Himmler want to give Hitler in 1943?
(a) The liquidation of the rest of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
(b) A European bison.
(c) The death of all the Poles in Warsaw.
(d) The complete destruction of the city of Warsaw.

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

5. Where did the lynxes that Antonina adopted come from?
(a) A North American wildlife preserve.
(b) The Berlin Zoo.
(c) The Washington Zoo.
(d) The Bialowieza Forest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of tree drew bees to the zoo?

2. Where did Jan build an ammunitions dump for the Home Army?

3. What word was used to refer to a Jewish hiding place that had been discovered?

4. What does Punia, the nickname Jan gave Antonina, mean?

5. Why was the school Jan taught at while he was part of the Underground called a "flying university?"

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