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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Jan and Antonina do with the dead antelopes, deer, and horses after the initial attack on Warsaw?
(a) Had them butchered and their meat distributed to the hungry.
(b) Had their meat laced with poison and delivered to the German army.
(c) Left their corpses to rot to deter the German soldiers from moving into the zoo.
(d) Buried them in the garden.

2. What animal did Antonina and Rys take to their country home with them?
(a) A baby lion.
(b) A baby badger.
(c) A rabbit.
(d) An otter.

3. Why did Jan and Antonina think Lutz Heck might help them?
(a) He was a trustworthy man.
(b) He was a friend of Jan's father.
(c) He was sympathetic to the Jews.
(d) He was sweet on Antonina.

4. What was Antonina's father's occupation?
(a) Professor.
(b) Author.
(c) Railroad engineer.
(d) Lawyer.

5. How old was Antonina when her parents were killed?
(a) Nine.
(b) Eleven.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Five.

6. What was explorer Ernst Schafer sent to locate?
(a) The Holy Grail.
(b) A pure tarpan.
(c) The roots of the Aryan race.
(d) The Garden of Eden.

7. What were the race of "pure" humans that the Nazis sought to create called?
(a) Gnostics.
(b) Aryans.
(c) Freemasons.
(d) Neolithics.

8. Who was Danglu Leist?
(a) The director of the Berlin Zoo.
(b) The German president of Warsaw.
(c) The Polish vice president of Warsaw.
(d) One of Hitler's top officers.

9. What animal did Jan raise at the zoo to feed German soldiers?
(a) Cattle.
(b) Pigs.
(c) Rabbits.
(d) Sheep.

10. What did the director of the slaughterhouse want to turn the zoo into?
(a) A German herbal plant company.
(b) A meat processing plant.
(c) A horse farm.
(d) A training camp for soldiers.

11. After Antonina heard that the Polish army was going to surrender, who delivered a message to the contrary?
(a) Hitler.
(b) The Polish president.
(c) The mayor of Warsaw.
(d) Jan.

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

13. What area of the city was directly across the river from the zoo?
(a) The Polish Marketplace.
(b) New Berlin.
(c) The Jewish Quarter.
(d) Old Town.

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

15. What event were Jan and Antonina preparing for when the war began?
(a) A tour of the zoo by important political figures.
(b) The sale of the zoo to Germany.
(c) National Animal Awareness Day.
(d) The International Association of Zoo Directors' annual meeting.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Rys first hear about the impending war?

2. What did the Polish vice president suggest the zoo be used for?

3. What did Antonina feed the Guests that she passed off as pheasant?

4. Where in the zoo did the Germans build a weapons storehouse?

5. Who did Jan meet while on a daily bicycle tour of the zoo?

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