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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. When Eva's mother became ill and had to go to a sanatorium, where did Eva go to stay?
2. What ship did Eva and her family sail on to Canada?
3. What year did prayers and religion classes begin in Polish schools?
4. Where did Eva's father hide his foreign currency?
5. Who refused to leave the ship and meet her new husband when the ship reached Canada?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. How did Eva's mother view the idea of being lazy for women?
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. 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. How did Eva feel about national pride?
6. 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?
7. 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?
8. Why did Eva consider the landing of the Batory the end of the narrative of her childhood?
9. What, according to Eva, threw an "odd light" on Pani Orlovska?
10. What, according to the author, was middle class in the Poland of her childhood?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Name small ways of intimacy that made a difference in Canada. How does Eva feel about these things? What is her reaction to them? Support your discussion by using examples from the book.
Essay Topic 2
Compare the meaning of friendship in Poland and Canada through the eyes of the author? What about her friendships in New York? Does she finally get the kind of friends she wants? How does she describe them?
Essay Topic 3
Why is English the language of Eva's adulthood? Why does she stop translating in her head? What happens that makes it possible for Eva to think and dream in English? Why is this an important step in her development?
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