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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the boarder in Maryna's home who later becomes her husband?
(a) Michal Gorbechov.
(b) Heinrich Zalezowski.
(c) Henryk Simonzas.
(d) Alex Bordonivich.

2. How long is the train trip Julian and Ryszard take to get to their final destination in America?
(a) Five days and four nights.
(b) Ten days and nine nights.
(c) Five days and five nights.
(d) Seven days and seven nights.

3. What are some of the things Maryna, Aniela, and Piotr see on their excursion from New York?
(a) Telephone, typewriter, and copy machine.
(b) Automobile, blender, and vacuum cleaner.
(c) Radio, gas automobiles, and vacuum cleaner.
(d) Telephone, color television, and answering machine.

4. What is Brook Farm?
(a) A colony in New England in America.
(b) A chicken farm not far from Zakopane.
(c) A commune in Canada.
(d) The neighboring land.

5. How long do the newer steamships take to cross the Atlantic to America?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) A month.
(c) Eight days.
(d) Twelve days.

6. Who erected the Centennial Fountain?
(a) The Italian Immigrants Society.
(b) The Pacific Railway.
(c) The Bell Telephone.
(d) The Catholic Total Abstinece Union.

7. Who does Ryszard meet at a bar in a brothel?
(a) An author who wrote The Streets of New York.
(b) An author who works for the London Times.
(c) An author who wrote for the New York Times.
(d) An author who wrote The Communistic Societies of the United States.

8. Where is the celebration dinner party after Maryna's performance?
(a) Hotel Krakow.
(b) Hotel Sushi.
(c) Hotel California.
(d) Hotel Saski.

9. What is the name of the ship sailing to America?
(a) SS Queen Mary.
(b) SS Minnow.
(c) SS Atlantic.
(d) SS Germanic.

10. At the celebration party, what language is being spoken by the guests?
(a) Swedish.
(b) Polish.
(c) Chinese.
(d) Russian.

11. Where did Julian go by himself two days after arriving in America?
(a) Centennial Exhibition.
(b) Central Park.
(c) The Village.
(d) New Jersey.

12. Who is called a "national symbol?"
(a) Stalin.
(b) Bogdan.
(c) Churchill.
(d) Maryna.

13. Who slaps Maryna across the face?
(a) Her rival, Gabriela Ebert.
(b) Her son, Piotr.
(c) Her sister, Gasla Zoven.
(d) Her husband, Bogdan.

14. What happens to the Schobert family of Henryk's story?
(a) They all die, except a three year old, of poisoning.
(b) They all survive a stomach flu.
(c) They all die on the way to California.
(d) They all move to Brook Farm.

15. What does Ryzsard hope to accomplish aboard the ocean liner?
(a) To meet a woman to marry.
(b) To read War and Peace.
(c) To write about the Americans he interviews.
(d) To learn to be a chef in the kitchen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Maryna's personal assistant?

2. Where is Zakopane?

3. What book has Henryk given to Maryna as a farewell gift?

4. What news does Tadeusz receive in Krakow?

5. Who ministers to the sick in the village at no charge all summer?

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