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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. Who did Janek, the boy Eva met on the ship to Canada, meet as he leaves the ship?
(a) His father.
(b) His boss.
(c) His aunt.
(d) His mother.

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

3. How much younger was Eva's sister than her?
(a) 16 months.
(b) 4 years.
(c) 8 years.
(d) 1 year.

4. What did Pani Orlovska tell Eva she should wash her face with to have a good complexion?
(a) Noxema.
(b) Alcohol.
(c) Dove.
(d) Laundry soap.

5. Who was Eva's sister named after?
(a) Her mother's sister.
(b) A relative in Israel.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) A maid.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who's son was Marek?

2. What was commonly known about Dr. Orlovski that his wife overlooked?

3. What kind of uniform did Eva wear to the Cracow Music School?

4. Where did the ship that Eva and her family emigrate to Canada on sail from?

5. What was the name of the drink made for Eva by her mother when she was sick?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What was the difference between the books that Eva choose from the library and books she had to read in school in Poland?

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

5. What emotion did Eva have when she heard the Polish National Anthem as her ship left for Canada?

6. What, according to the author, was middle class in the Poland of her childhood?

7. What changed in the friendship with Basia after she returned from the camp for young communists?

8. What was a sanatorium and why did Eva's mother have to go to a sanatorium for a while?

9. How did Eva feel about national pride?

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

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