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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Eva when her family sailed for Canada?
(a) 13 years old.
(b) 16 years old.
(c) 22 years old.
(d) 19 years old.

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

3. What year did prayers and religion classes begin in Polish schools?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1957.

4. Who died in 1956 on a visit to Moscow?
(a) President Reagan.
(b) President Eisenhower.
(c) President DeGaul.
(d) Poland's president, Bierut.

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

6. What did Eva play for her first public piano performance?
(a) Bach.
(b) Czerny.
(c) Haydn.
(d) Mozart.

7. In Eva's Poland apartment, what was the "second" room?
(a) The maid's room.
(b) A bedroom for Eva and her sister.
(c) A bedroom for Eva's parents.
(d) Eva's sisters room.

8. What group of brothers kept eluding the gestapo so successfully during the war that the Germans thought Eva's father was one of them?
(a) Marek brothers.
(b) Grodzinska brothers.
(c) Sullivan brothers.
(d) Wydra brothers.

9. Who, at home, infused Eva and her sister with Christian teachings?
(a) Their father.
(b) Pani Ruta.
(c) The maids.
(d) Their mother.

10. How much younger was Eva's sister than her?
(a) 8 years.
(b) 1 year.
(c) 16 months.
(d) 4 years.

11. Where did Eva's family take vacations when she was young in Poland?
(a) Paris.
(b) Israel.
(c) Bialy Dunajec.
(d) Baltic Sea.

12. What did Krysia's older brother study in school?
(a) Engineering.
(b) Literature.
(c) Music.
(d) Law.

13. What kind of uniform did Eva wear to the Cracow Music School?
(a) Pants and a white blouse.
(b) An overdress made from navy blue fabric.
(c) A skirt and white top.
(d) Jeans and a blue top.

14. What Polish word was the best compliment that a school exercise could receive and means "dash, inspiration and flying?"
(a) Polot.
(b) Peuchet.
(c) Polish.
(d) Panash.

15. What book did Eva's father read that gave him the initial idea to emigrate to Canada?
(a) Oh Canada!
(b) Canada Fragrant with Resin.
(c) Canada, the Land of Immigration.
(d) How to Emigate to the Americas.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Eva go to Christian church with when she was young?

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

3. How did Krysia describe her friendship to Eva in a poem?

4. What happened to Alinka when her mother went to a sanatorium?

5. What kind of facade did the synagogue in Poland have?

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