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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Marek tell Eva's father before his family left Poland?
(a) They must leave for America soon.
(b) He wanted to marry Eva and come to Canada.
(c) That they had to move to Isreal because Eva was supposed to be his wife.
(d) He wanted to join the military in Isreal.

2. What street did Eva and her family live on in Poland?
(a) Urzednicza.
(b) Czajkowskis.
(c) Krysia.
(d) Kazimierza Wielkiego.

3. Who was Eva and Marek's first music teacher?
(a) Marek's mother.
(b) Pani Ruta.
(c) Eva's mother.
(d) Pani Grodzinska.

4. What did Danuta Dombarska, the blond girl who lived in the next building in Poland want to be when she grew up?
(a) A politician.
(b) A saint.
(c) A park ranger.
(d) An actress.

5. What book did Eva's father read that gave him the initial idea to emigrate to Canada?
(a) Oh Canada!
(b) Canada Fragrant with Resin.
(c) How to Emigate to the Americas.
(d) Canada, the Land of Immigration.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Eva and her sister have sewn into the pockets of their skirts when they sailed for Canada?

3. What did Eva's mother have an aversion to teaching her daughter?

4. Where was the first place the ship stopped when reaching Canada?

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?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Eva gather memories before the family emigrated to Canada?

2. What did Eva feel that she was being exiled from as she left Poland?

3. How was life on the ship to Canada like a family?

4. Compare Krysia's adult life with Eva's. What were the differences? What were the similarities? How did you think they viewed each others lives?

5. Why did Eva consider the landing of the Batory the end of the narrative of her childhood?

6. How did Pani Ruta live during the war and why was her family untouched by what was happening to the Jews?

7. 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?

8. What, according to Eva, threw an "odd light" on Pani Orlovska?

9. Why was it important for Eva's mother to have a maid? What role did this maid play in her idea of what a homemaker was?

10. Why did Eva's parents go to synagogue and practice religion?

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