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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Maryna first meet Bogdan's grandmother?
(a) In 1915 when they all leave for America.
(b) In 1840 when Piotr is first born.
(c) In 1870 when she and Bogdan are to be wed.
(d) In 1930 when she and Bogdan are to be wed.

2. What happens on the ship to draw Maryna's attention away from her introspection?
(a) The captain asks her to dance.
(b) Bogdan disappears.
(c) The ship hits a rock.
(d) A man falls overboard.

3. Who ministers to the sick in the village at no charge all summer?
(a) Julian.
(b) Bogdan.
(c) Jozephina.
(d) Henryk.

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

5. For what newspaper is Ryzsard a correspondent?
(a) The New York Times.
(b) Gazeta Warsaw.
(c) Gazeta Polska.
(d) The London Herald.

6. How old is Maryna when she first enters the theatre?
(a) Twenty five.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Seven.
(d) Fifteen.

7. Where is the celebration party taking place?
(a) In a hotel.
(b) In a mansion.
(c) In an embassy.
(d) In a private home.

8. How does Maryna describe the change in her since beginning the trip to America?
(a) "I adore travel."
(b) "I am not prepared for this hardship."
(c) "I am hot and tired of this."
(d) "I swim in vacancy."

9. Who is the man in the felt hat Maryna meets in Bremen?
(a) Her ex-husband, Heinrich Zalezowska.
(b) Her school teacher, Henryk Klein.
(c) Her student, Krystyna.
(d) Her friend, Jacob Weisner.

10. Of what do Maryna and Henryk speak the day after her performance?
(a) Love and marriage.
(b) Depression and fatalism.
(c) Paradise and will.
(d) Past and future.

11. Who is Aniela?
(a) A young acting student in America.
(b) Piotr's cousin.
(c) A young servant girl in Maryna's employ.
(d) Piotr's baby sister.

12. How many guests have attended Maryna's celebration party?
(a) 15.
(b) 105.
(c) 27.
(d) 45.

13. What book has Henryk given to Maryna as a farewell gift?
(a) Gone With the Wind.
(b) The Expressions of the Emotions in Man and Animals.
(c) The Survival of the Fittest.
(d) Emiliy Dickenson's Poetry.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Brook Farm?

2. What does Julian tell Ryszard he dreams of doing in America?

3. What is the name of the hotel in which Julian and Ryszard stay in New York City?

4. What people does Ryszard find to be the most polite people in New York?

5. Why does Maryna declare "you have waited so long."

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