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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. Which close relative of Eva's mother died during the war in the gas chambers?
2. What happened to Alinka when her mother went to a sanatorium?
3. Who, at home, infused Eva and her sister with Christian teachings?
4. Who died in 1956 on a visit to Moscow?
5. When did Eva's family attend synagogue in Poland?
Short Essay Questions
1. For Eva's parents, what extra meaning did her birth have?
2. 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?
3. 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?
4. What emotion did Eva have when she heard the Polish National Anthem as her ship left for Canada?
5. What changed in the friendship with Basia after she returned from the camp for young communists?
6. Why did Eva's parents go to synagogue and practice religion?
7. How did Eva gather memories before the family emigrated to Canada?
8. Why did Eva consider the landing of the Batory the end of the narrative of her childhood?
9. How did Eva feel about national pride?
10. What was the difference between the books that Eva choose from the library and books she had to read in school in Poland?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
In the end, what is emigration? What does it mean to be an immigrant? Would people born in America have the same expectations of the country? Why? Why not?
Essay Topic 3
What is the difference, according to the author, between American women and their mothers and Polish women and their mothers? What kind of relationships do they have? How do emotions play into this?
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