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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 did hearing English distorted feel like for Eva?
(a) Grated on her like chalk screeching on a blackboard.
(b) Made her laugh.
(c) Made her cry.
(d) Made her sick to her stomach.

2. What, according to the author, was the language of money and secrets?
(a) Russian.
(b) Yiddish.
(c) Polish.
(d) English.

3. In Eva's Poland apartment, what was the "second" room?
(a) A bedroom for Eva and her sister.
(b) A bedroom for Eva's parents.
(c) Eva's sisters room.
(d) The maid's room.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of facade did the synagogue in Poland have?

2. After Eva's parents worked their business out of their basement, where did they move the business?

3. How, according to Eva, did girls act in Canada when talking about boys?

4. What did Eva tell Penny that she thought of when she thought of love?

5. Who owns the houses in the locations where Eva's family vacations when she is young in Poland?

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