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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Paradise.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Eva and her family go on an autumn afternoon in 1958?
(a) To a demonstration.
(b) To a car dealership.
(c) To their favorite park.
(d) To the Bergs' house.

2. When Eva's mother became ill and had to go to a sanatorium, where did Eva go to stay?
(a) With her sister.
(b) To an orphanage.
(c) With her aunt.
(d) With Marek and his family.

3. How did Krysia describe her friendship to Eva in a poem?
(a) Like a coy pond.
(b) Like a mountain.
(c) Like a cold running river.
(d) Like a weeping willow.

4. Which close relative of Eva's mother died during the war in the gas chambers?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her brother.

5. Who refused to leave the ship and meet her new husband when the ship reached Canada?
(a) Eva.
(b) Pani Ruta.
(c) Alenka.
(d) Irena.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much younger was Eva's sister than her?

2. What color were the goldfish at the pond that Eva and her parents often visited in Poland?

3. Where in New York did Eva meet somebody who knew her parents before the war?

4. What did Danuta Dombarska, the blond girl who lived in the next building in Poland want to be when she grew up?

5. What did Pani Orlovska tell Eva she should wash her face with to have a good complexion?

(see the answer key)

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