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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 classmate of Antonina's.
(b) He was a former employee of the Warsaw Zoo.
(c) He was a classmate of Jan's.
(d) He was a guard at the Berlin Zoo.

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

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

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

5. What did Lutz Heck take from the Warsaw Zoo in addition to valuable animals?
(a) Breeding records.
(b) The money set aside for feeding the animals.
(c) Rys's pet badger.
(d) The blueprints for the zoo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the river that bordered the zoo?

2. What kind of animal was Rys's pet named Morys?

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

4. Who did Antonina supposedly remind Lutz Heck of?

5. Who was Danglu Leist?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Lutz Heck’s real plan in taking animals from the Warsaw Zoo?

2. Why did Jan feel such a strong connection with the Jews?

3. What made Antonina feel hopeful at first when Lutz Heck came to visit the villa?

4. Why were the Warsaw Zoo’s polar bears shot by Polish soldiers?

5. Why did the Germans take children with Aryan features to be raised in Germany?

6. Why did Antonina initially turn down Lutz Heck’s offer of help for the zoo?

7. How did Antonina describe her friend Magdalena?

8. What was special about the baby elephant Tuzinka?

9. Why did the Zabinskis frequently invite non-Jewish visitors to the villa?

10. Why were Antonina’s parents killed when she was nine?

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