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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the Wydra's travel from the Canadian port city to Vancouver?
(a) By train.
(b) By car.
(c) By ship.
(d) By plane.

2. On their trip to Vancouver, how much did four bowls of soup cost?
(a) $2.00.
(b) $.50.
(c) $10.00
(d) $4.00

3. What began to win Eva prizes at school in Canada?
(a) Her painting.
(b) Her piano playing.
(c) Her poems.
(d) Her speeches.

4. When Eva went out with her new friends in Canada, what was the boy wearing who teased Eva and called her a "foreign student?"
(a) Tennis shoes.
(b) Jeans and a blue jean jacket.
(c) A flowery Hawaiian shirt and a crew cut.
(d) A suite without a tie.

5. What nationality was Eva's piano teacher in Canada?
(a) Russian.
(b) American.
(c) Polish.
(d) Canadian.

6. When Eva saw a black man on her travels to Vancouver, who did she think he looked like?
(a) Harry Belafonte.
(b) Wilt Chamberlin.
(c) Ray Charles.
(d) Martin Luther King.

7. What cartoon did Eva and her mother just not understand?
(a) The Time Magazine cartoon.
(b) The television cartoons.
(c) The Vancouver Gazette cartoon.
(d) The New Yorker cartoon.

8. Where was the photograph taken about a year after the Wydra's arrived in Canada?
(a) By the ocean.
(b) In the mountains.
(c) In the back yard of their home.
(d) In front of a museum.

9. What did Eva and Alinka discuss on their way home from school as they dawdled along Main Street?
(a) Other Jewish families in Vancouver.
(b) The problems with their mom and dad.
(c) Tupperware or a blouse or an embroidered collar -- things in the store windows.
(d) Boys.

10. What novel did John Fowles write that influenced Eva?
(a) The Ebony Tower.
(b) America's Tastes.
(c) Polish Immigrants.
(d) The Grid.

11. What did Penny give Eva for her birthday that got her writing juices flowing?
(a) A blank notebook.
(b) A typewriter.
(c) A diary.
(d) Stationary.

12. What was the address where the Wydra's first lived in Vancouver written on the "I'm lost" card?
(a) 1785 Granville Street.
(b) 1785 Pioneer Street.
(c) 6845 Twin Peaks Ave.
(d) 4848 Circle Drive.

13. What did Penny's sister, Janet, try to do?
(a) Kill herself.
(b) Buy liquor.
(c) Sneak out to see a boy.
(d) Run away.

14. What did Eva tell Penny that she thought of when she thought of love?
(a) Poland.
(b) A dark forest with a narrow path.
(c) A sunlit street.
(d) A beautiful beach.

15. What was Vancouver's shopping mecca?
(a) Old Navy.
(b) The outlet mall.
(c) Crest Bay.
(d) Hudson Bay.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Eva and Alina arrived at school, what was the first English word that they understood?

2. When the Wydra's arrived in Canada, how far away were they from Vancouver in Eva's mind?

3. What was Mr. Ostropov involved in politically back in Russia?

4. What did hearing English distorted feel like for Eva?

5. Where did Eva decide to attend college for her undergraduate degree?

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