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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 two words make up the name Anaheim?
2. Which roles does Edwin Booth enjoy playing the most?
3. What name has Piotr been given in school?
4. What happens to Edwin Booth at McVicker's Theatre in Chicago?
5. To where does Maryna travel for her first performances outside of San Francisco?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the history of the land on which Maryna and her group settle? What is the primary crop of the land?
2. Maryna hires Eliza Withington to take a photograph of the group. Why does she do this? What conversation takes place between Eliza and Maryna after the photo shoot? How does the photo turn out?
3. In his love letter to Maryna in which he asks her to travel with him, Ryzard refers to Jack Goodyear, a squatter Ryszard has met in the mountains. Jack Goodyear explains to Ryszard that "sometimes it seems to him as though there were two Jacks." What does Goodyear mean by this?
4. Mr. Warnock uses a devise by which he fills the theatre. What does he do, and why? How does Maryna react to it? Does it work?
5. What does Edwin Booth have in his possession named Philo Perkins? What is the story behind Philo Perkins?
6. In Chapter Seven, Bogdan injures himself and cannot come to San Francisco. What happens between Ryszard and Maryna? How do they change? What happens to their relationship by the end of the chapter?
7. After their brief affair, Maryna breaks off her relationship with Ryszard and sends him away. Why does Maryna end the relationship? How do each of them react to the rejection?
8. What story does Ryszard write based on the events at the circus? What is his purpose for writing his story?
9. Edwin Booth talks about his father and his brother, John Booth. What does he reveal about these two important figures in his life?
10. Describe the immigrants' first night on their land in Anaheim, California.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the importance of the discussion Maryna has with Mrs. Welton? What important thing does Maryna reveal to Mrs. Welton that has not been revealed previously? Why does Maryna believe she has the right to criticize America?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
As they are readying to go to California to look for a new home for themselves and their friends, Ryszard says to Julian "America has its America, its better destination where everyone dreams of going." Discuss this theme in two contexts: America as it is seen by foreign immigrants, and America as it is seen by Americans.
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