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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 was Vancouver's shopping mecca?
(a) Crest Bay.
(b) The outlet mall.
(c) Hudson Bay.
(d) Old Navy.

2. Where did the Wydras live inside the house in which they stayed when they arrived in Vancouver?
(a) The spare bedroom.
(b) The "family" room.
(c) The attic.
(d) The basement.

3. What language did Eva begin writing in when she began taking writing seriously?
(a) Italian.
(b) French.
(c) English.
(d) Polish.

4. Who did Eva relate to best in Canada and consider her "real friends?"
(a) Her father's friends.
(b) Dogs, not people.
(c) People several generations older than her.
(d) People her own age.

5. How did the Wydra's travel from the Canadian port city to Vancouver?
(a) By train.
(b) By plane.
(c) By car.
(d) By ship.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Eva confide to Mrs. Steiner?

3. What, according to Eva and her parents, was the "big fear?"

4. What story of success did Eva's father hear from a man who spoke Yiddish about a Polish Jew who came to Canada?

5. Why couldn't Eva hear herself on the radio when she was interviewed at 14 years old?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Mr. Ostropov play the role of the "mad Russian?"

2. When Eva and her friends would see a foreign film in Poland, what questions would they ask about the characters in the film? How does this relate to Eva's life in Canada?

3. In Eva's attempt at secrecy, what role did Mrs. Steiner play? Why did Eva place her is this position? What characteristics did Mrs. Steiner have that made Eva behave differently towards her?

4. Why did Eva believe that speech was a class signifier?

5. How did Eva see Mr. Rosenberg after the Wydra's had been in Canada for a bit? How did he change in Eva's eyes and why did she perceive him differently after a short time?

6. When did Eva realize that discussing communism with her classmates was a waste of time?

7. Once in Canada, how did Eva keep her privacy? What did she hold back? How was she careful in what she said about the difficulties that her family was facing?

8. When Eva and her family arrived in Canada, how did Eva view the two parts of her life?

9. What did Eva mean when she claimed to have "no interior language?"

10. How were Eva's views of communism different from her classmates?

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