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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What year did prayers and religion classes begin in Polish schools?
2. What is unique about Orlovska's apartment that let Eva know that they had more money than her family?
3. In Eva's Poland apartment, what was the "second" room?
4. How did Krysia describe her friendship to Eva in a poem?
5. What city did Eva and her parents get off the ship at when they arrived in Canada?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Eva gather memories before the family emigrated to Canada?
2. What emotion did Eva have when she heard the Polish National Anthem as her ship left for Canada?
3. For Eva's parents, what extra meaning did her birth have?
4. How did Pani Ruta live during the war and why was her family untouched by what was happening to the Jews?
5. What was Eva's education like in Poland? Do you think she was getting two different educations? How did the teachers help the students understand what was important?
6. What, according to the author, was middle class in the Poland of her childhood?
7. Why did Eva's parents go to synagogue and practice religion?
8. What was a sanatorium and why did Eva's mother have to go to a sanatorium for a while?
9. How was life on the ship to Canada like a family?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Throughout the story, explain the meaning of "being Jewish" to the author. Give examples of how she explains her "Jewishness" at different times in her life and how her views of her ethnic background changes with each major geographical move in her life.
Essay Topic 2
From Eva's viewpoint, how do Americans feel about American identity? What do Americans feel they are missing? Does Eva feel she is missing the same thing once she becomes "Americanized?"
Essay Topic 3
How does the age difference between Eva and her sister affect Eva's sister? How is she more quickly "Americanized?" Why do you think this is? At what ages did the girls emigrate? Why is this important? Support your essay with quotes from the book.
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