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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. Why was the school Jan taught at while he was part of the Underground called a "flying university?"
(a) Because the location moved to avoid detection.
(b) Because they taught people how to fly planes.
(c) Because their symbol was a bird.
(d) Because the students had to learn at an extremely fast pace.

2. What were Jews passing as Aryans called?
(a) Sparrows.
(b) Foxes.
(c) Cats.
(d) Deer.

3. What talent did Fox Man entertain the Guests with?
(a) Painting.
(b) Telling stories.
(c) Singing.
(d) Playing piano.

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

5. What was the name of Rys's pet rooster?
(a) Wicek.
(b) Balbina.
(c) Kuba.
(d) Morys.

Short Answer Questions

1. What season was it when Antonina was finally able to leave her bed after months of convalescing?

2. What caused Rys to be hospitalized in the winter of 1943?

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

4. What job did Antonina give Genia to disguise her while she lived at the zoo?

5. Who were the Sables?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why were the boys hiding in the Pheasant House confused when Rys introduced himself?

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

3. How did Jan’s observations about animal behaviors help him in his Underground work?

4. What did Antonina write in her journal that the author said was as close as she ever got to writing about being an orphan?

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

6. Why did the Nazi’s portray Jews with rat-like faces in their propaganda?

7. Why was Fox Man’s offer of a bookkeeping job so important to Maurycy Fraenkel?

8. What nearly ruined Jan’s plan to bring Lonia Tenenbaum out of the Ghetto?

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

10. Why did Jan and Antonina carry cyanide pills with them?

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