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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Countess, Bogdan, and Maryna drink on their farewell visit?
(a) Hot beer with cream and white cheese.
(b) Hot butter beer.
(c) Hot toddies.
(d) Hot buttered rum.

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

3. What is the first play Maryna sees as a child?
(a) Don Carlos.
(b) Othello
(c) A Doll House
(d) Romeo and Juliet

4. Where in America is Maryna living at the start of her letter?
(a) Manhattan, New York.
(b) Albany, New York.
(c) Atlantic City, New Jersey.
(d) Hoboken, New Jersey.

5. Who is hosting the celebration party for Maryna?
(a) Bogdan
(b) Ryszard.
(c) Henryk.
(d) Piotr.

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

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

8. Who makes the first toast to Maryna at dinner?
(a) The doctor.
(b) The husband.
(c) The critic.
(d) The writer.

9. What book does the young woman from Philadelphia show Ryszard?
(a) Her baby book.
(b) Her copy of David Copperfield.
(c) Her bible.
(d) Her autograph book.

10. Who is called a "national symbol?"
(a) Bogdan.
(b) Churchill.
(c) Stalin.
(d) Maryna.

11. What was the name of one of the articles Ryszard sent to the Gazetta Polska?
(a) American Architecture.
(b) American Manners.
(c) American Motors.
(d) American Folkways.

12. Why does Maryna declare "you have waited so long."
(a) She has been gone for a long time.
(b) The performance ran late.
(c) Dinner was served after 11 pm.
(d) She is beginning to recite a poem.

13. What people does Ryszard find to be the most polite people in New York?
(a) Chinese.
(b) British.
(c) Italians.
(d) African Americans.

14. What is the name of the ship sailing to America?
(a) SS Minnow.
(b) SS Queen Mary.
(c) SS Atlantic.
(d) SS Germanic.

15. Where did Bogdan and Maryana dine on their night out alone in New York City?
(a) The Plaza.
(b) Ruth's Chris.
(c) Delmonico's.
(d) Kreis'.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the man in the felt hat Maryna meets in Bremen?

2. From what play does Maryna quote upon her entrance to the celebration party in her honor?

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

4. Why does the captain of the ship ask Ryszard not to go to the steerage section again?

5. Who is the man described as sitting on a couch writing in a notebook?

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