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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who ministers to the sick in the village at no charge all summer?
(a) Jozephina.
(b) Bogdan.
(c) Julian.
(d) Henryk.

2. What is Wanda's reason for going to California?
(a) Because she wants a new life.
(b) Because Maryna has asked her to go.
(c) Because her husband wants to go.
(d) Because she is tired of Poland.

3. How old is Maryna when she first enters the theatre?
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Twenty five.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Seven.

4. Who erected the Centennial Fountain?
(a) The Bell Telephone.
(b) The Pacific Railway.
(c) The Italian Immigrants Society.
(d) The Catholic Total Abstinece Union.

5. What year do the characters leave for Zakopane?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1821.
(d) 1876.

6. How long is the train trip Julian and Ryszard take to get to their final destination in America?
(a) Seven days and seven nights.
(b) Five days and four nights.
(c) Five days and five nights.
(d) Ten days and nine nights.

7. Of what do Maryna and Henryk speak the day after her performance?
(a) Depression and fatalism.
(b) Love and marriage.
(c) Paradise and will.
(d) Past and future.

8. Who is Krystyna?
(a) The young actress studying with Maryna.
(b) Bogdan's daughter from his first marriage.
(c) Piotr's older sister.
(d) The maid.

9. What is Maryna wearing at the celebration party after her performance?
(a) A tutu.
(b) A dark green suit.
(c) A sage green robe.
(d) A sequin-studded dress.

10. Who is Jozefina?
(a) Maryna's stage assistant.
(b) Maryna's widowed sister.
(c) Bogdan's aunt.
(d) Maryna's servant and housekeeper.

11. What does Ryszard find when he goes below to the steerage portion of the ship?
(a) A smoking room filled with men.
(b) Dinner being served in the dining hall.
(c) Overcrowding and wretched conditions.
(d) Foreigners preparing to eat dinner.

12. Where did Julian go by himself two days after arriving in America?
(a) Central Park.
(b) Centennial Exhibition.
(c) New Jersey.
(d) The Village.

13. What toast does Maryna offer?
(a) "Homeland."
(b) "World peace."
(c) "Besettas."
(d) "Amor."

14. Who does Ryszard meet at a bar in a brothel?
(a) An author who wrote The Communistic Societies of the United States.
(b) An author who works for the London Times.
(c) An author who wrote The Streets of New York.
(d) An author who wrote for the New York Times.

15. Who is Maryna portraying at the end of her performance before the celebration dinner party?
(a) Adrienne.
(b) Madame Curie.
(c) Mary Stuart.
(d) Juliet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the ship the immigrants eventually take to Panama?

2. Who does Maryna rush back to Krakow to see?

3. When is the story set?

4. Who does the dinner conversation center around?

5. What does Bogdan offer as a toast?

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