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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. How did the Polish Underground learn of Treblinka?

2. What practice did Rabbi Shapira engage in to help himself deal with the suffering in the Ghetto?

3. Where did historian Ringelblum hide documents that described what happened in Warsaw during the war?

4. Who saw Magdalena at the zoo and gossiped about it?

5. What kind of face did Nazi Posters depict Jewish people as having?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How did Zegota member Janina Buchholtz hide the presence of false papers in her office?

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

6. How was Mrs. Walter helping Jews to hide?

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

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

9. Why was Antonina confined to bed for several months?

10. What reason did Mrs. Dewitzowa give Antonina for sending Magdalena and Maurycy back to the zoo?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Write an essay explaining the significance of the title of the book. Why did the author choose to write about Antonina rather than Jan? How does making Jan the protagonist of the book support Ackerman’s themes?

Essay Topic 3

Wicek and Kuba play important roles in the lives of the Zabinskis as well as in Ackerman’s development of themes and statements about human behavior. Write an essay that explains the importance of these animals, how the author uses them to develop themes, and what she suggests about human behavior through these animals.

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