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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following was an entomologist?
(a) Szymon Tenenbaum.
(b) Maurycy Fraenkel.
(c) Magdalena Gross.
(d) Lutz Heck.

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

3. What was the zoo's cryptonym?
(a) The House Under a Full Moon.
(b) The Lynx House.
(c) The Monkey House.
(d) The House Under a Crazy Star.

4. How did Jan and Antonina know the German soldier who came to the villa to tell them that Lutz Heck wanted to see them?
(a) He was a former employee of the Warsaw Zoo.
(b) He was a classmate of Antonina's.
(c) He was a classmate of Jan's.
(d) He was a guard at the Berlin Zoo.

5. What did Antonina feed the Guests that she passed off as pheasant?
(a) Pigeons.
(b) Crows.
(c) Flamingos.
(d) Starlings.

6. What does Rys mean in Polish?
(a) Starling.
(b) Rabbit.
(c) Lion.
(d) Lynx.

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

8. Which of the following was one of Lutz Heck's hobbies?
(a) Gardening.
(b) Fishing.
(c) Big game hunting.
(d) Collecting insects.

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

10. What was the name of the rhesus monkey that was stealing babies from other monkeys?
(a) Janusz.
(b) Maurycy.
(c) Adolf.
(d) Lutz.

11. What language was illegal to speak in Warsaw during the German occupation?
(a) German.
(b) Polish.
(c) Hebrew.
(d) French.

12. What theory did Lutz Heck reject?
(a) The theory of enrichment for zoo animals.
(b) The theory of ethical treatment of zoo animals.
(c) The theory of animal psychology.
(d) The theory of hybrid vigor.

13. Who told Antonina that the Polish army was planning to surrender?
(a) Adam Englert.
(b) Magdalena Gross.
(c) Maurycy Fraenkel.
(d) Szymon Tenenbaum.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who urged the people of Warsaw to accept Poland's surrender peacefully?

2. What did Lutz Heck take from the Warsaw Zoo in addition to valuable animals?

3. What print did Antonina prefer for her clothing?

4. What did the people of Warsaw gather in the streets to see after Poland surrendered?

5. What did Hitler do to justify an attack on Poland?

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