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1. Irena Sendler's heroic actions were largely forgotten until the year 2000 a. because b. though c. when d. while four students at a Kansas high school decided to research her life as part of a history assignment.
2. a. Although b. Once c. As long as d. In case the Sendlers were Polish Catholics, Irena's surgeon father had raised her to think of the Jewish people as equals.
3. The Nazis invaded Poland in 1939. Irena had access to food, medicine and money a. even though b. because c. but d. unless she was working as an administrator in the Warsaw Social Welfare Department.
4. The department provided homeless people with food and shelter, a. since b. as if c. and d. till Sendler started a secret mission to help Jewish people as well.
5. She knew it would be illegal under Nazi rule, a. so b. or else c. as d. whilst she signed the Jews up under Christian names. She wrote down their real names, put them in jars and buried them under an apple tree in her neighbour's garden.
6. a. Not that b. In order that c. Whenever d. Otherwise the authorities could be kept away, she told them that anyone signed up to receive aid was suffering from a highly infectious disease, typhus.
7. a. Before b. Whereas c. Even though d. Once the Warsaw Ghetto was established, the Jews inside started dying at a rate of some 5,000 per month from starvation and disease.
8. Sendler visited the ghetto every day disguised as a nurse, convincing Jewish parents to let her smuggle their children to safety. a. Furthermore b. Nonetheless c. As a result d. Yet, she personally saved the lives of 2,500 children.
9. The Gestapo finally figured out what Irena was doing and arrested her. They smashed her feet and legs a. unless b. after c. since d. till all the bones were broken, but she refused to reveal any names.
10. The woman who had smuggled children to safety under old clothes in wheelbarrows, coffins, toolboxes and potato sacks was sentenced to death, a. though b. but c. in case d. because her friends bribed a guard to let her escape, and she spent the rest of the war in hiding.
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