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

3. According to the woman who Eva met in New York who knew her parents before the war, how did Eva's father save Eva's mother after she had a miscarriage?
(a) He cared for her at home.
(b) He sent her to her mother's.
(c) He transported her on a motorcycle.
(d) He carried her on his back to safety.

4. Where did the ship that Eva and her family emigrate to Canada on sail from?
(a) Krakow.
(b) Paris.
(c) London.
(d) Gdynia.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Eva's Poland apartment, what was the "second" room?

2. What group of brothers kept eluding the gestapo so successfully during the war that the Germans thought Eva's father was one of them?

3. What city did Eva and her parents get off the ship at when they arrived in Canada?

4. Who owns the houses in the locations where Eva's family vacations when she is young in Poland?

5. What was commonly known about Dr. Orlovski that his wife overlooked?

Short Essay Questions

1. What changed in the friendship with Basia after she returned from the camp for young communists?

2. What was the difference between the books that Eva choose from the library and books she had to read in school in Poland?

3. Compare Krysia's adult life with Eva's. What were the differences? What were the similarities? How did you think they viewed each others lives?

4. Why did Eva's parents go to synagogue and practice religion?

5. What, according to the author, was middle class in the Poland of her childhood?

6. What was Eva's education like in Poland? Do you think she was getting two different educations? How did the teachers help the students understand what was important?

7. How did Eva gather memories before the family emigrated to Canada?

8. What was a sanatorium and why did Eva's mother have to go to a sanatorium for a while?

9. How did Eva's mother view the idea of being lazy for women?

10. Why did Eva consider the landing of the Batory the end of the narrative of her childhood?

(see the answer keys)

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