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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. Where in New York did Eva meet somebody who knew her parents before the war?
(a) At a dinner party.
(b) In Times Square.
(c) A work.
(d) In the Union Square cafeteria.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What ship did Eva and her family sail on to Canada?

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

4. What did the brass band play as the ship left the harbor when Eva's family sailed for Canada?

5. When Eva's mother became ill and had to go to a sanatorium, where did Eva go to stay?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Pani Ruta live during the war and why was her family untouched by what was happening to the Jews?

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

3. Why was it important for Eva's mother to have a maid? What role did this maid play in her idea of what a homemaker was?

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

5. 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?

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

7. What did Eva feel that she was being exiled from as she left Poland?

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

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

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

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