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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 year did prayers and religion classes begin in Polish schools?
2. What color were the goldfish at the pond that Eva and her parents often visited in Poland?
3. Where did Eva and her family go on an autumn afternoon in 1958?
4. What was another word for "cuppings?"
5. In the winter, how did Eva's mother transport her to school?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did Eva consider the landing of the Batory the end of the narrative of her childhood?
2. How was life on the ship to Canada like a family?
3. How did Eva feel about national pride?
4. 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?
5. How did Eva gather memories before the family emigrated to Canada?
6. Why did Eva's parents go to synagogue and practice religion?
7. What changed in the friendship with Basia after she returned from the camp for young communists?
8. 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?
9. How did Pani Ruta live during the war and why was her family untouched by what was happening to the Jews?
10. What was an apparatchik in Poland and who, according to Eva, was one? What did they do? What was their function in the political landscape?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
In the end, what is emigration? What does it mean to be an immigrant? Would people born in America have the same expectations of the country? Why? Why not?
Essay Topic 3
How does the author describe words as signals? What kind of signals do words give the author? How does she read the signals? Use 2-3 examples of signals as discussed in the book.
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