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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 did Jan give the German president that changed his mind about reopening the Warsaw Zoo?
(a) A plan for opening a substandard zoo.
(b) An inflated budget estimate.
(c) A bribe.
(d) A plan that did not include any German animals.

2. What was the name of Antonina's children's book about lynxes?
(a) Tofi and Tufa.
(b) Rysie.
(c) A Lynx Tale.
(d) The Wild Lynx.

3. Where did Szczurcio hide when he escaped his cage?
(a) In the Pheasant House.
(b) In the chimney.
(c) Under Rys's bed.
(d) In the garden.

4. What caused Rys to be hospitalized in the winter of 1943?
(a) Typhus.
(b) A broken leg.
(c) Appendicitis.
(d) Pneumonia.

5. During the third winter of the war, which room was the only one in the villa the Zabinskis were able to heat?
(a) The office.
(b) The dining room.
(c) The bathroom.
(d) The kitchen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the orphans call Janusz Korczak?

2. Where was Magdalena sent when she finally left the zoo?

3. What did Magdalena compare Antonina to when Jan was praising her for managing the situation with the German soldier during the fire at the barracks?

4. What did Himmler study before the war?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Magdalena Gross get the cryptonym “Starling”?

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

4. Why does Ackerman describe Wicek the rabbit as a “fat, furry thug”?

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

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

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

8. How did the people at the villa feel when they heard about the Ghetto Uprising?

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

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

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