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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What did Penny's sister, Janet, try to do?
(a) Run away.
(b) Sneak out to see a boy.
(c) Buy liquor.
(d) Kill herself.
2. What did Eva's sister do almost the entire trip from Montreal to Vancouver?
(a) Giggled nervously.
(b) Ran around and played.
(c) Ate.
(d) Slept.
3. What story of success did Eva's father hear from a man who spoke Yiddish about a Polish Jew who came to Canada?
(a) He went to work in a restaurant and worked his way up from dishwasher.
(b) He sold all his possessions and bought a lumber yard.
(c) He built houses and made a great living.
(d) He produced Polish pickles and made a fortune.
4. When Eva saw a black man on her travels to Vancouver, who did she think he looked like?
(a) Harry Belafonte.
(b) Ray Charles.
(c) Martin Luther King.
(d) Wilt Chamberlin.
5. Vancouver's Board of Commerce claimed that Vancouver was the most beautiful city in the world after what city?
(a) Rio de Janeiro.
(b) New York.
(c) Phoenix.
(d) Paris.
6. On their trip to Vancouver, how much did four bowls of soup cost?
(a) $10.00
(b) $2.00.
(c) $.50.
(d) $4.00
7. Who did Eva relate to best in Canada and consider her "real friends?"
(a) People her own age.
(b) Her father's friends.
(c) People several generations older than her.
(d) Dogs, not people.
8. What cartoon did Eva and her mother just not understand?
(a) The New Yorker cartoon.
(b) The Time Magazine cartoon.
(c) The television cartoons.
(d) The Vancouver Gazette cartoon.
9. Where was the photograph taken about a year after the Wydra's arrived in Canada?
(a) In the mountains.
(b) By the ocean.
(c) In front of a museum.
(d) In the back yard of their home.
10. What, according to Eva and her parents, was the "big fear?"
(a) That you would not be able to buy a house.
(b) That you'd be broke and live in The Bowery.
(c) That you would become too "American."
(d) That you would not be able to buy a car.
11. How many languages did Eva's mother speak?
(a) Eight languages.
(b) Five languages.
(c) Nine languages.
(d) One language.
12. What did Mrs. Steiner disapprove of that Eva's father did?
(a) He started a junk company.
(b) He quit his job at the lumber mill.
(c) He left his wife.
(d) He drank.
13. What was the address where the Wydra's first lived in Vancouver written on the "I'm lost" card?
(a) 4848 Circle Drive.
(b) 6845 Twin Peaks Ave.
(c) 1785 Pioneer Street.
(d) 1785 Granville Street.
14. Where was the Steiner's house in Vancouver?
(a) On top of the mountain.
(b) At the edge of the city.
(c) The harbor.
(d) On Harbor Rd.
15. What two popular shows on T.V. did the men go to the den to watch during parties in Canada?
(a) I Love Lucy and Bonanza.
(b) The Lawrence Welk Show and the Ed Sullivan Show.
(c) Friends and I Love Lucy.
(d) Father Knows Best and the Ed Sullivan Show.
Short Answer Questions
1. What are Eva and Alinka dressed in when they arrive in Vancouver?
2. What game did most teenage parties devolve into that made Eva feel that she was among a strange tribe of adolescents?
3. What did hearing English distorted feel like for Eva?
4. What was Mr. Ostropov involved in politically back in Russia?
5. What did Eva believe was the most important thing about speech?
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