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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 book did Antonina and Rys read while Lutz Heck's shooting party was going on at the zoo?

2. Where did Jan build an ammunitions dump for the Home Army?

3. What were the racist laws that governed how much Jewish blood a person could have without being "tainted" called?

4. What was the baby elephant's name?

5. Who sent fruit and vegetable peelings to the zoo to feed the animals in the fall after Warsaw's surrender?

Short Essay Questions

1. What special ability did Antonina have that Jan described as “metaphysical waves”?

2. Why did Wanda and Adam Englert divorce?

3. What was Lutz Heck’s real plan in taking animals from the Warsaw Zoo?

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

5. How did Dr. Muller help Jan return to Warsaw?

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

7. What was special about the baby elephant Tuzinka?

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

9. Why were Jan and Antonina so frightened when they witnessed a trolley being bombed?

10. How did Antonina describe her friend Magdalena?

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

Ackerman describes the zoo in detail before it is destroyed during the war, and also describes the damage that is done as a result of the war. Write an essay explaining the importance of the way in which Ackerman describes the zoo as the book begins and how the zoo changes as the story unfolds. How do the changes to the zoo affect the people who call it home?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay describing how Rys changed from before the war until the time when they return to Warsaw after the Uprising. How did the war affect his relationships with other people? Did the war have lasting effects on Rys?

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