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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. Where was the Steiner's house in Vancouver?
(a) On top of the mountain.
(b) The harbor.
(c) On Harbor Rd.
(d) At the edge of the city.

2. What kind of food did the Wydra's have in their luggage from their trip?
(a) Dried cake, canned sardines, and fruit.
(b) Dried cake, canned sardines and sausage.
(c) Dried cake, figs and fruit.
(d) Canned sardines, sherry and pickles.

3. On Eva's voyage of self-improvement, what two historical figures did she want to follow?
(a) Lewis and Clark.
(b) Ben Franklin and Thomas Wolfe.
(c) Pocahontas and Captain Smith.
(d) Thomas Edison and Henry Ford.

4. What story of success did Eva's father hear from a man who spoke Yiddish about a Polish Jew who came to Canada?
(a) He produced Polish pickles and made a fortune.
(b) He went to work in a restaurant and worked his way up from dishwasher.
(c) He built houses and made a great living.
(d) He sold all his possessions and bought a lumber yard.

5. Why couldn't Eva hear herself on the radio when she was interviewed at 14 years old?
(a) Her mother thought she was on T.V.
(b) Her family didn't own a radio.
(c) She didn't understand that she was on the radio.
(d) She didn't know how to find the radio station.

Short Answer Questions

1. Just before leaving for college, how did Eva describe herself?

2. What theater troupe came to Vancouver to perform Macbeth?

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

4. What did Eva's mother mean when she said that Eva was becoming "English?"

5. When Eva went out with her new friends in Canada, what was the boy wearing who teased Eva and called her a "foreign student?"

Short Essay Questions

1. Once in Canada, how did Eva keep her privacy? What did she hold back? How was she careful in what she said about the difficulties that her family was facing?

2. How was Eva a "pretend teenager?"

3. How did Eva see Mr. Rosenberg after the Wydra's had been in Canada for a bit? How did he change in Eva's eyes and why did she perceive him differently after a short time?

4. 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?

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

6. 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?"

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

8. When Eva and her family arrived in Canada, how did Eva view the two parts of her life?

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

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

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