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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What condition does the author speculate caused Antonina to be bedridden?
(a) Phlebitis.
(b) Migraines.
(c) Tendonitis.
(d) Multiple sclerosis.

2. Which Guest's leaving made Antonina the most sad?
(a) Maurycy's.
(b) Fox Man's.
(c) Regina's.
(d) Magdalena's.

3. What did the orphans call Janusz Korczak?
(a) Janusz.
(b) Pan Doctor.
(c) Zi.
(d) Papa.

4. What unusual food did Wicek like to eat?
(a) Pickles.
(b) Meat.
(c) Peppers.
(d) Fish.

5. How old was Janusz Korczak when the deportations to the death camps began?
(a) 64.
(b) 56.
(c) 35.
(d) 82.

6. Which of the following did Polish folklore say meant that death was near?
(a) A rooster crowing when it was not dawn.
(b) A broom falling for no reason.
(c) Dropping a piece of silverware.
(d) A bird flying into a window.

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

8. How many boxes did Antonina recall there were in Szymon Tenenbaum's insect collection?
(a) 20.
(b) 50.
(c) 800.
(d) 400.

9. What was Szczurcio?
(a) A pig.
(b) A rabbit.
(c) A muskrat.
(d) A rooster.

10. What name did the Zabinskis call Witold Wroblewski?
(a) Maurycy.
(b) Fox Man.
(c) Janusz Korczak.
(d) Dr. Muller.

11. What kind of face did Nazi Posters depict Jewish people as having?
(a) Devil-like.
(b) Rat-like.
(c) Horse-like.
(d) Snake-like.

12. What was the name of Szymon Tenenbaum's wife?
(a) Zarka.
(b) Irene.
(c) Janusz.
(d) Lonia.

13. What is another name for the bottle grenades that Jews in the Ghetto used as a defense against the Germans?
(a) Molotov cocktail.
(b) German growler.
(c) Gasoline grenade.
(d) Bottle bomb.

14. Who sold his own house to purchase apartments to hide Jews in?
(a) Feliks Cywinski.
(b) Samuel Kenigswein.
(c) Janusz Korczak.
(d) Rabbi Shapira.

15. How did Genia escape when she was sent to Treblinka?
(a) She jumped off the train.
(b) She snuck off into the fields they were marching through to reach Treblinka.
(c) She bribed a soldier.
(d) She disguised herself as a soldier.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Polish Underground learn of Treblinka?

2. Who saw Magdalena at the zoo and gossiped about it?

3. Why did Magdalena's presence at the villa pose a greater threat to the other Guests?

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

5. Where did historian Ringelblum hide documents that described what happened in Warsaw during the war?

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