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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. Who is never mentioned in Antonina's memoirs?
2. What name did the Zabinskis call Witold Wroblewski?
3. Where was Magdalena sent when she finally left the zoo?
4. What did Jan give the German president that changed his mind about reopening the Warsaw Zoo?
5. 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?
Short Essay Questions
1. What nearly ruined Jan’s plan to bring Lonia Tenenbaum out of the Ghetto?
2. What did Feliks Cywinski do periodically to hide the fact that he was rescuing Jews?
3. How was Mrs. Walter helping Jews to hide?
4. Why does Ackerman describe Wicek the rabbit as a “fat, furry thug”?
5. Why were the boys hiding in the Pheasant House confused when Rys introduced himself?
6. In Janusz Korczak’s story about an astronomer named Zi who lived on the planet Ro, why did Zi consider destroying Earth?
7. How did Magdalena Gross get the cryptonym “Starling”?
8. Why did Antonina consider Fox Man’s cat, Balbina, a good citizen of the villa?
9. Why did Rabbi Shapira think it was important for Jews in the Ghetto to commune with nature?
10. Why was Fox Man’s offer of a bookkeeping job so important to Maurycy Fraenkel?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe Antonina and how her life at the zoo prepared her to help Jan rescue Jews during the war. What was Antonina like before the war? How did her personality affect the way she treated the Guests? What skills helped her to survive the war?
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay explaining the author’s development and use of the theme of courage. What suggestion does the author make about courage? How does she use people to strengthen the theme?
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay explaining how Ackerman uses the animal motif to explain the Nazi agenda of creating a master human race. Explain what the Nazi’s hoped to achieve and why and how Ackerman compares that to Lutz Heck’s goal of re-creating extinct species.
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