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

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

3. What act of sabotage did Rys and his friend plan to undertake?
(a) Burning the German weapons hold at the zoo.
(b) Derailing a train.
(c) Bombing a haystack.
(d) Vandalizing a German officer's house.

4. What had the boys that Jan discovered hiding in the bushes at the villa done that they needed to hide at the zoo?
(a) Shot a German.
(b) Snuck a Jewish boy out of the Ghetto.
(c) Set fire to German gas tanks.
(d) Bombed a haystack.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Fox Man use as a wet nurse for the baby foxes?

2. Why did Rys tell his mother he knew more about keeping wartime secrets than she did?

3. What animal did Magdalena Gross sculpt as a gift for Jan?

4. What did the orphans call Janusz Korczak?

5. Who is never mentioned in Antonina's memoirs?

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

3. How did the Jews respond to Himmler trying to liquidate the remaining Jews in the Ghetto in 1943?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Why was it difficult for some Jews to change their names in order to go into hiding?

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