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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one reason Julian and Ryszard chose the spot they had for the commune?
(a) Its proximity to a German community.
(b) Its cattle ranch.
(c) Its large living quarters.
(d) Its large kitchen.

2. What does Wanda do while the others are touring the land?
(a) She tries to get back on the train.
(b) She touches a scorpion.
(c) She touches a beaver-tail cactus.
(d) She begins to cook dinner.

3. What song does Barbara sing all day, the only one she knows in English"
(a) Suwanee River.
(b) Three Blind Mice.
(c) Old McDonald.
(d) Old Man River.

4. What is the name of the circus that comes to the village?
(a) Barnum Circus.
(b) Shriner's Circus.
(c) Stappenbeck Circus.
(d) San Francisco Circus.

5. From what Shakespearean play does Maryna quote to Halek?
(a) Othello.
(b) Romeo and Juliet.
(c) A Midsummer's Night Dream
(d) As You Like It.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the playbills for Maryna's New York debut read?

2. Who comes to visit the commune from San Francisco?

3. Who is Angus Barton?

4. What is the name of the new eau de cologne in New York?

5. What role does Bogdan say he knows how to play in his marriage to Maryna?

Short Essay Questions

1. What story does Ryszard write based on the events at the circus? What is his purpose for writing his story?

2. Ryszard offers to take Bogdan and Maryna on a trip to San Bernardinos. Does Bogdan go on the trip? How does he feel about Maryna and Ryzsard alone on the trip?

3. What does Edwin Booth have in his possession named Philo Perkins? What is the story behind Philo Perkins?

4. Edwin Booth talks about his father and his brother, John Booth. What does he reveal about these two important figures in his life?

5. Describe the immigrants' first night on their land in Anaheim, California.

6. How does Booth treat Maryna in his monologue? Why does she suffer his verbal abuses?

7. Edwin professes to Maryna that there are no happy endings and that an ending is anticlimactic. What does he mean by this?

8. In Chapter Seven, the narrator says "and she would tell many lies." Why does Maryna begin to tell lies? What does she lie about? What are some of the lies she tells and to whom?

9. In his love letter to Maryna in which he asks her to travel with him, Ryzard refers to Jack Goodyear, a squatter Ryszard has met in the mountains. Jack Goodyear explains to Ryszard that "sometimes it seems to him as though there were two Jacks." What does Goodyear mean by this?

10. In Chapter Seven, Bogdan injures himself and cannot come to San Francisco. What happens between Ryszard and Maryna? How do they change? What happens to their relationship by the end of the chapter?

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