Zoo Keepers Wife final test

What was Antonina's father's occupation?

railroad engineer

How old was Antonina when her parents were killed?

9

What skill did Antonina's grandmother send her to school to study?

piano

What task did Antonina sometimes do in the middle of the night?

Midwife a zoo animal

What kind of tree drew bees to the zoo?

Linden

What area of the city was directly across the river from the zoo?

Old Town

According to legend, what did the word Poland sound like in Hebrew that made the Jews want to go there?

Rest here

What animal frequently followed Jan around the zoo on his daily bicycle tours?

An elk

Where did the lynxes that Antonina adopted come from?

The Bialowieza Forest

What does Rys mean in Polish?

lynx

What was the name of the rhesus monkey that was stealing babies from other monkeys?

adolf

What responsibility did Antonina attend to each day at the zoo following her breakfast?

Greeted VIP visitors

Which animals were the first that a visitor to the zoo would see?

Flamingos

What was the baby elephant's name?

Tuzinka

What was the name of the river that bordered the zoo?

Vistula

Who did Jan meet while on a daily bicycle tour of the zoo?

Magdalena

What was Magdalena's profession?

Sculptor

What event were Jan and Antonina preparing for when the war began?

The International Association of Zoo Director's annual meeting

What animal did Antonina and Rys take to their country home with them?

A baby badger

How did Rys first hear about the impending war?

From his friends while at the country house

What did Hitler do to justify an attack on Poland?

Staged a phony attack on a German border town

Who did Antonina and Rys stay with when Jan was first ordered to join the army and the zoo was evacuated?

Antonina's sister-in-law

What kind of store did Antonina and Rys seek shelter in when Antonina thought the fourth floor apartment was not safe?

Lampshade store

When Antonina ventured outside of the store they were sheltered in, what did she see falling from the sky?

Feathers

Who told Antonina that the Polish army was planning to surrender?

Adam Englert

After Antonina heard that the Polish army was going to surrender, who delivered a message to the contrary?

The mayor of Warsaw

Who helped Jan to return to Warsaw during the initial battle?

Dr. Muller

What did Jan and Antonina do with the dead antelopes, deer, and horses after the initial attack on Warsaw?

Had them butchered and their meat distributed to the hungry.

Who urged the people of Warsaw to accept Poland's surrender peacefully?

General Rommel

What did the people of Warsaw gather in the streets to see after Poland surrendered?

The German army entering the city.

Who ruled Warsaw after the surrender?

Hans Frank

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

The people of Warsaw

How did Jan and Antonina know the German soldier who came to the villa to tell them that Lutz Heck wanted to see them?

He was a guard at the Berlin zoo.

What was Lutz Heck's profession before the war?

He was the director of the Berlin Zoo.

Why did Jan and Antonina think Lutz Heck might help them?

He was sweet on Antonina.

What element of zoo design did Lutz Heck advocate for?

Enclosures that resembled the animals' natural habitats';uyts

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

Big game hunting

Which of the following is an extinct animal that Lutz Heck hoped to re-create?

Tarpan

What is an aurochs?

A bison

What were the race of "pure" humans that the Nazis sought to create called?

Aryans

Who did Antonina supposedly remind Lutz Heck of?

His first love

What print did Antonina prefer for her clothing?

Polka dots

What theory did Lutz Heck reject?

The theory of hybrid vigor

What did Lutz Heck take from the Warsaw Zoo in addition to valuable animals?

Breeding records

What animal did Jan raise at the zoo to feed German soldiers?

Pigs

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

Robinson Crusoe

What language was illegal to speak in Warsaw during the German occupation?

Polish

What was explorer Ernst Schafer sent to locate?

The roots of the Aryan race

What kind of animal was Rys's pet names Morys?

Pig

What did Antonina send with Jan to deliver when he went into the Ghetto to collect scraps to feed the pigs?

Packets of food

How many calories per day were Jews rationed?

184

What symbol were Jews forced to wear to identify them as Jews?

The star of David

What name did Jewish women with Aryan-sounding names have to change their names to?

Sarah

How many people were confined to the 20 blocks that constituted the Ghetto?

400,000

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

The Nuremberg Laws

Who divorced her husband and staged her disappearance because she was Jewish and he was not?

Wanda Englert

Where in the zoo did the Germans build a weapons storehouse?

The lions' island

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

The elephant enclosure

What was Jan's cryptonym?

Francis

What was the punishment for harboring a Jew?

Death

Where did Ewa Brzuska (Granny) hide Jews who were on their way to other locations?

In her grocery store

What was Jan collecting in the boxes he placed on shelves in the villa's kitchen?

Fuses for bombs

What was the zoo's cryptonym?

The House Under a Crazy Star

What did Antonina feed the Guests that she passed off as pheasant?

Crows

What was Rys told about the Guests who stayed at the zoo?

That he had to keep them a secret.

What happened to Morys?

German soldiers took him away to be butchered.

What did Germans refuse to purchase for the pigs?

Straw

What did the director of the slaughterhouse want to turn the zoo into?

A German herbal plant company

Who was Danglu Leist?

The German president of Warsaw

What did the Polish vice president suggest the zoo be used for?

A vegetable garden to feed the locals

Which of the following was an entomologist?

Szymon Tenebaum

What song did Antonina play on the piano as a warning signal for the Guests?

Go, go, go to Crete!

What was the name of Szymon Tenenbaum's wife?

Lonia

Where is Szymon Tenenbaum's insect collection today?

The State Zoological Museum

How many boxes did Antonina recall there were in Szymon Tenenbaum's insect collection?

800

What did Himmler study before the war?

Agriculture

What animal is thought to be the cause of the death of much of Napoleon's army?

Louse

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

Rat-like

What percentage of the Orthodox community was lost during World War II?

90%

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

Communing with nature

During the third winter of the war, which room was the only one in the villa the Zabinskis were able to heat?

The dining room

What did Rys do during the winter days when Jan was at work?

Went to Underground School.

What unusual food did Wicek like to eat?

Meat

What was the name of Rys's pet rooster?

Kuba

What excuse did Irene Sendler use to gain access to the Ghetto?

Setting up a station to deal with infectious diseases.

How did the Polish government smuggle money into Poland while they were exiled and based in London?

Strapped to parachutists

Why was the school Jan taught at while he was part of the Underground called a "flying university?"

Because the location moved to avoid detection.

What animal did Magdalena Gross sculpt as a gift for Jan?

A bison

What were Jews passing as Aryans called?

Cats

What word was used to refer to a Jewish hiding place that had been discovered?

Burnt

What was Magdalena Gross's cryptonym?

Starling

Why did Magdalena's presence at the villa pose a greater threat to the other Guests?

She was famous.

Which of the following words best describes Magdalena's personality?

Cheerful

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

Phlebitis

How did the Polish Underground learn of Treblinka?

Through a coded letter

What was Janusz Korczak's real name?

Henryk Goldszmit

What did the orphans call Janusz Korckak?

Pan Doctor

How old was Janusz Korczak when the deportations to death camps began?

64

What was the cryptonym for the Council to Aid the Jews?

Zegota

About how many people did Jan say were rescued through the zoo?

300