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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Exile.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Eva and Alinka dressed in when they arrive in Vancouver?
(a) Identical navy blue dresses with sailor collars.
(b) Their pajamas.
(c) Flower dresses and matching socks.
(d) Jeans and white shirts.

2. What did Eva and her sister have sewn into the pockets of their skirts when they sailed for Canada?
(a) Money.
(b) Gold.
(c) Silverware.
(d) Jewelry.

3. What did Eva think that the sliced cheese and bologna smelled like?
(a) Raw meat.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Plastic.
(d) Chicken.

4. How did Eva's mother and father prefer her to dress when in Poland?
(a) In colorful clothes.
(b) In clothes that are too large.
(c) In "sports outfits" meaning shorts or long pants.
(d) In fancy dresses.

5. What did Eva's sister do almost the entire trip from Montreal to Vancouver?
(a) Giggled nervously.
(b) Ate.
(c) Slept.
(d) Ran around and played.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did prayers and religion classes begin in Polish schools?

2. What did Eva play for her first public piano performance?

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 did hearing English distorted feel like for Eva?

5. What did Marek tell Eva's father before his family left Poland?

(see the answer key)

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