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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Wanda's reason for going to California?
(a) Because Maryna has asked her to go.
(b) Because she wants a new life.
(c) Because she is tired of Poland.
(d) Because her husband wants to go.

2. From what play does Maryna quote upon her entrance to the celebration party in her honor?
(a) Timmon of Athens.
(b) Othello.
(c) Hamlet.
(d) Romeo and Juliet.

3. Who does Maryna rush back to Krakow to see?
(a) Her sister Jozefina who is ill.
(b) Her brother Stefan who is dying.
(c) Her mother and father.
(d) Bogdan's mother.

4. What toast does Maryna offer?
(a) "Besettas."
(b) "Homeland."
(c) "World peace."
(d) "Amor."

5. What is Nipu?
(a) A small, isolated, idealic community.
(b) A small coastal town off Japan.
(c) A small town in northern England.
(d) A small island off the coast of Russia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first play Maryna sees as a child?

2. Who does Ryszard meet at a bar in a brothel?

3. What is the name of the boarder in Maryna's home who later becomes her husband?

4. What does Ryszard find when he goes below to the steerage portion of the ship?

5. When she is a child, what is one thing Maryna wants to grow up to be?

(see the answer key)

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