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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What kind of uniform did Eva wear to the Cracow Music School?
2. Who owns the houses in the locations where Eva's family vacations when she is young in Poland?
3. How much younger was Eva's sister than her?
4. What city did Eva and her parents get off the ship at when they arrived in Canada?
5. How old was Eva when her family sailed for Canada?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was a sanatorium and why did Eva's mother have to go to a sanatorium for a while?
2. How did Eva feel about national pride?
3. What was Eva's education like in Poland? Do you think she was getting two different educations? How did the teachers help the students understand what was important?
4. Why did Eva's parents go to synagogue and practice religion?
5. Why did Eva consider the landing of the Batory the end of the narrative of her childhood?
6. What emotion did Eva have when she heard the Polish National Anthem as her ship left for Canada?
7. What, according to the author, was middle class in the Poland of her childhood?
8. What did Eva feel that she was being exiled from as she left Poland?
9. How did Eva's mother view the idea of being lazy for women?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does Eva use detachment to help her survive in Canada, in college and even beyond? What is she detaching from? What does this leave her to connect to?
Essay Topic 2
What is the difference, according to the author, between American women and their mothers and Polish women and their mothers? What kind of relationships do they have? How do emotions play into this?
Essay Topic 3
How are women portrayed in the story? What are their roles? How are they viewed by the author? How are they viewed by others in the story? By men? Give examples to support your statements.
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