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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who owns the houses in the locations where Eva's family vacations when she is young in Poland?
(a) Cherokee.
(b) Gorale.
(c) An Italian couple.
(d) A French gentleman.

2. 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.

3. Who was Eva's sister named after?
(a) A relative in Israel.
(b) A maid.
(c) Her mother's sister.
(d) Her grandmother.

4. Other than a pianist, what did Eva declare that she would like to be when she grew up?
(a) A writer.
(b) A mother.
(c) An actress.
(d) An engineer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Eva and her sister have sewn into the pockets of their skirts when they sailed for Canada?

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. Who did Janek, the boy Eva met on the ship to Canada, meet as he leaves the ship?

4. Where did the ship that Eva and her family emigrate to Canada on sail from?

5. When did Eva's family attend synagogue in Poland?

Short Essay Questions

1. What emotion did Eva have when she heard the Polish National Anthem as her ship left for Canada?

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

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

4. How was life on the ship to Canada like a family?

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

6. 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?

7. What was an apparatchik in Poland and who, according to Eva, was one? What did they do? What was their function in the political landscape?

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

9. How did Eva feel about national pride?

10. For Eva's parents, what extra meaning did her birth have?

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