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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 is another name for the bottle grenades that Jews in the Ghetto used as a defense against the Germans?

2. What condition does the author speculate caused Antonina to be bedridden?

3. What had the boys that Jan discovered hiding in the bushes at the villa done that they needed to hide at the zoo?

4. What was Magdalena Gross's cryptonym?

5. What did Jan give the German president that changed his mind about reopening the Warsaw Zoo?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Jan’s observations about animal behaviors help him in his Underground work?

2. Why did the Nazi’s portray Jews with rat-like faces in their propaganda?

3. Why was Fox Man’s offer of a bookkeeping job so important to Maurycy Fraenkel?

4. Why did Jan and Antonina carry cyanide pills with them?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay describing how the author develops the theme of what makes a house a home. How does Antonina make the villa a home even after the war starts? How does she make the schoolhouse a home?

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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