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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Paradise.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Eva's mother became ill and had to go to a sanatorium, where did Eva go to stay?
(a) With her aunt.
(b) With Marek and his family.
(c) To an orphanage.
(d) With her sister.

2. How did Krysia describe her friendship to Eva in a poem?
(a) Like a cold running river.
(b) Like a coy pond.
(c) Like a weeping willow.
(d) Like a mountain.

3. What did Eva's father use as a means of transportation in Poland?
(a) A bicycle.
(b) A scooter.
(c) A motorcycle.
(d) A car.

4. Who asked Eva to dance on board the ship coming to Canada?
(a) Marek.
(b) The captain.
(c) Janek.
(d) Her father.

5. What body of water did the ship sail down after it reached the coast of Canada?
(a) The Hudson River.
(b) Lake Ontario.
(c) The St. Lawrence Seaway.
(d) Lake Huron.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Eva's family attend synagogue in Poland?

2. Where did Eva's mother take her every two weeks when she was a child that Eva described as being like Plato's cave or an Egyptian temple?

3. Who refused to leave the ship and meet her new husband when the ship reached Canada?

4. Where did Eva and her family go on an autumn afternoon in 1958?

5. What group of brothers kept eluding the gestapo so successfully during the war that the Germans thought Eva's father was one of them?

(see the answer key)

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