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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. When Eva went out with her new friends in Canada, what was the boy wearing who teased Eva and called her a "foreign student?"
(a) Jeans and a blue jean jacket.
(b) A flowery Hawaiian shirt and a crew cut.
(c) A suite without a tie.
(d) Tennis shoes.

2. What did Eva and Alinka discuss on their way home from school as they dawdled along Main Street?
(a) Other Jewish families in Vancouver.
(b) The problems with their mom and dad.
(c) Boys.
(d) Tupperware or a blouse or an embroidered collar -- things in the store windows.

3. What cartoon did Eva and her mother just not understand?
(a) The New Yorker cartoon.
(b) The Time Magazine cartoon.
(c) The television cartoons.
(d) The Vancouver Gazette cartoon.

4. After Eva's parents worked their business out of their basement, where did they move the business?
(a) They rented a store.
(b) They sold out of their truck.
(c) The moved the business upstairs.
(d) They bought a store.

5. When Eva and Alina arrived at school, what was the first English word that they understood?
(a) No.
(b) Shut up or shuddup.
(c) Yes.
(d) Candy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What could Eva NOT afford to do at Christmas when she was in college?

2. Who in Canada supervised Eva's musical progress?

3. What story of success did Eva's father hear from a man who spoke Yiddish about a Polish Jew who came to Canada?

4. What language did Eva begin writing in when she began taking writing seriously?

5. Who did the Wydra's stay with when they arrived in Vancouver?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the concept of "internal goods" give Eva comfort and allow her to feel more comfortable with herself?

2. When Eva and her friends would see a foreign film in Poland, what questions would they ask about the characters in the film? How does this relate to Eva's life in Canada?

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

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

5. What did Eva mean when she claimed to have "no interior language?"

6. What role did humor play in learning a new language for the Wydra's and especially Eva? What was it like for Eva to tell a joke? What did not translate from Polish to English?

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

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

9. Why did Eva believe that speech was a class signifier?

10. 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?"

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