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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. What medical procedure did Jewish men sometimes have to help them pass as Aryan?
(a) Removal of tattoos.
(b) Foreskin reconstruction.
(c) Facelift.
(d) Circumcision.

2. What happened to the littermates of the baby hamster that Jan gave to Rys?
(a) They were eaten by a cat.
(b) Their mother killed them.
(c) They were used for experiments.
(d) They were confiscated by a German soldier to give to his children.

3. What was Maurycy Fraenkel's profession?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Rabbi.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Teacher.

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

5. What did Maurycy rename the hamster?
(a) Isaac.
(b) Jacob.
(c) Pawel.
(d) Piotr.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Szczurcio?

2. What was Janusz Korczak's real name?

3. What were Jews passing as Aryans called?

4. About how many people did Jan say were rescued through the zoo?

5. What was the name of Rys's pet rooster?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Janusz Korczak’s story about an astronomer named Zi who lived on the planet Ro, why did Zi consider destroying Earth?

2. Why did Rabbi Shapira think it was important for Jews in the Ghetto to commune with nature?

3. Why did Jan talk to Rys as though he were a soldier when he confronted the boy about his plan to bomb a haystack?

4. Why did Antonina consider Fox Man’s cat, Balbina, a good citizen of the villa?

5. How was Mrs. Walter helping Jews to hide?

6. Why was Rys the one usually chosen to deliver meals to Guests staying in animal enclosures?

7. What did Feliks Cywinski do periodically to hide the fact that he was rescuing Jews?

8. Why do the Poles claim Janusz Korczak as a martyr?

9. What reason did Mrs. Dewitzowa give Antonina for sending Magdalena and Maurycy back to the zoo?

10. How did the Kenigsweins smuggle their two young boys out of the Ghetto?

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