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

2. Who was Eva and Marek's first music teacher?
(a) Eva's mother.
(b) Pani Ruta.
(c) Pani Grodzinska.
(d) Marek's mother.

3. Who did Janek, the boy Eva met on the ship to Canada, meet as he leaves the ship?
(a) His aunt.
(b) His boss.
(c) His father.
(d) His mother.

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

5. What, according to the author, was the language of money and secrets?
(a) English.
(b) Russian.
(c) Yiddish.
(d) Polish.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which close relative of Eva's mother died during the war in the gas chambers?

2. Who did Eva go to Christian church with when she was young?

3. What did Pani Orlovska tell Eva she should wash her face with to have a good complexion?

4. What was another word for "cuppings?"

5. Who was Eva's sister named after?

Short Essay Questions

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

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. How did Eva feel about national pride?

4. What, according to Eva, threw an "odd light" on Pani Orlovska?

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. 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?

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

9. How did the author describe illness in Poland and illness in Canada? What were the differences between how children were treated when they had a cold or the flu in the two countries?

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

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