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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. What does Ryszard give to Maryna after her performance?
2. What book does the young woman from Philadelphia show Ryszard?
3. What is Nipu?
4. What year do the characters leave for Zakopane?
5. For what newspaper is Ryzsard a correspondent?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Maryna talk about the passenger who went overboard on the ship? Why does she talk so much about the incident? What are her speculations as to what happened? What are her feelings?
2. The narrator explains that she is not particularly intelligent. What else does she say about herself?
3. Who comes into Maryna's dressing room before the performance at the theatre in Krakow? What happens? How does Maryna react to the visitor's behavior?
4. How does Maryna relate to Henryk the family doctor in Chapter Two? What is their relationship? How does Maryna feel about him? How does she treat him?
5. The first of the immigrants to leave, Julian and Ryszard travel together to America. What is Ryszard anticipating for the trip? What kind of man does he hope to be when he lands in America?
6. In Chapter Four, Maryna explains that in some places, the oldest is best. However, in America she says "biggest is best." What does she mean by this? What does she see that supports her observation? Is she displeased by this?
7. To whom does Maryna write in Chapter Four? Where is she as the letter begins? Where does she go during the course of the letter? Where is she at the end of the letter? Why does the author choose a letter narration in this chapter?
8. In Chapter Zero, from whose voice is the story told? Who is the narrator? What does the narrator reveal about herself?
9. While hiding at the celebration party, the narrator pieces together the people in the room and the subject of their discussions. What does she gather about the people in the room and the plan underway?
10. On his passage to America, Ryszard spends time listening to English speaking passengers. He meets many Americans. How does he describe the American attitude about their country? How does this differ from the way Ryszard sees himself as a Pole?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Maryna declares that Henryk should think of Shakespeare when thinking of a reason to move to America. She explains "Shakespeare is everything." What does she mean by this statement? How does she compare Shakespeare to America? How is this scene like a Shakespearean chorus?
Essay Topic 2
Why has the author chosen to tell about the demise of the commune through Bogdan's journal? How does he give an adequate account of what happened?
Essay Topic 3
Ryszard thinks a great deal about class and privilege while on board the Germania on his way to America. Is the ship an analogy of a social system in America? Discuss this analogy and how accurate it is for America during the late nineteenth century as described in the novel.
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