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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 are Eva and Alinka dressed in when they arrive in Vancouver?
(a) Flower dresses and matching socks.
(b) Jeans and white shirts.
(c) Identical navy blue dresses with sailor collars.
(d) Their pajamas.

2. What was the Canadian version of McDonald's?
(a) White Castle.
(b) McDaffy's
(c) White Spot.
(d) Joe's Diner.

3. How long did Mr. Ostropov's lessons run?
(a) 1 hour and 1/2.
(b) Sometimes up to 3 hours.
(c) 30 minutes.
(d) 1 hour on the dot.

4. What did Eva confide to Mrs. Steiner?
(a) That she didn't like her school.
(b) That they had little money.
(c) That bullies beat her up.
(d) That her parents fought and argued.

5. Just before leaving for college, how did Eva describe herself?
(a) Lost between two languages.
(b) Lost between two worlds.
(c) Like a mosaic made of up fragments, but still an immigrant.
(d) Like a lost soul.

Short Answer Questions

1. Vancouver's Board of Commerce claimed that Vancouver was the most beautiful city in the world after what city?

2. Where did the Wydras live inside the house in which they stayed when they arrived in Vancouver?

3. What did Eva tell Penny that she thought of when she thought of love?

4. What two popular shows on T.V. did the men go to the den to watch during parties in Canada?

5. How, according to Eva, did girls act in Canada when talking about boys?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Mr. Ostropov play the role of the "mad Russian?"

2. When Eva dreamed of staying in Poland, how did she imagine her life would have been had she stayed? What was "normal" to Eva and why did she believe that life in Poland would have been "normal?"

3. Why did Eva choose English as the language she would write in when she received her new diary?

4. How was Eva a "pretend teenager?"

5. In Eva's attempt at secrecy, what role did Mrs. Steiner play? Why did Eva place her is this position? What characteristics did Mrs. Steiner have that made Eva behave differently towards her?

6. How did Canada's work ethic affect Eva's father and his view of himself?

7. Why did Eva's father struggle so much once the family was living in Canada?

8. Give an example of how the Wydra's became paralyzed by choices and how they made decisions?

9. When did Eva realize that discussing communism with her classmates was a waste of time?

10. As Eva learned new words and expressions, why was she baffled by "You're welcome?"

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