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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Magdalena's profession?

2. What was the punishment for harboring a Jew?

3. Which of the following was one of Lutz Heck's hobbies?

4. Where did the lynxes that Antonina adopted come from?

5. How many calories per day were Jews rationed?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Wanda and Adam Englert divorce?

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

3. What was special about the baby elephant Tuzinka?

4. Why did Jan suggest that the zoo be used to raise pigs?

5. How did Antonina describe her friend Magdalena?

6. What was unusual about the baby badger that Antonina raised?

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

8. Why did Antonina compare herself to a lioness when she was staying with her sister-in-law?

9. Why did Lutz Heck want to re-create the aurochs?

10. How does the author describe the sounds of the zoo in the morning before the war?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Music is mentioned frequently in The Zookeeper’s Wife. Write an essay that discusses the importance of music in Antonina’s life and how she used it to help her Guests endure the war.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay explaining the author’s choice to write about modern-day Poland in the final chapter. What purpose does this serve? What message does the author hope to leave readers with?

Essay Topic 3

When Maurycy is renamed Pawel (Paul), he gives the hamster a new name, Piotr (Peter), and says they will be like the disciples. Write an essay that explains what Maurycy means by this and what or who they will be disciples of.

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