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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 two pieces is Maryna performing for the third week of her New York engagement?
(a) Romeo and Juliet, and As You Like It.
(b) As You Like It and Adrienne.
(c) Othello and Macbeth.
(d) Camille and Adrienne.

2. What does Ryszard witness while on Market Street?
(a) A bank robbery by Maryna's Guatemalan admirer.
(b) Maryna kissing the flirting stockbroker.
(c) The murder of the stockbroker by the Guatemalan.
(d) Bogdan exiting a carriage.

3. At whose table does Maryna sit at the Polka Saloon?
(a) Ella LaRue's table.
(b) Henry Warnack's table.
(c) Abraham Lincoln's table.
(d) Edwin Booth's table.

4. In what is Sarah Bernhardt rumored to sleep?
(a) A satin lined coffin.
(b) A bath tub.
(c) A circular bed.
(d) A pile of three mattresses.

5. What promise does Maryna make to Piotr when arrives in New York from months in California?
(a) She will never leave him again.
(b) She will travel with him to Europe.
(c) She will bring him backstage to meet the actors.
(d) She will give him a birthday party.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are Good H and Bad H?

2. What does Wanda do while the others are touring the land?

3. From what Shakespearean play does Maryna quote to Halek?

4. Who are the three people Maryna thinks about contacting while she is listening to Mr. Barton?

5. What wakes the commune in the middle of the night in April?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Maryna choose to use as her audition material for Mr. Barton? How does the audition go? How does the author describe Marya's return to the stage? What do we learn about Maryna?

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. Maryna and her family travel back to Poland to see their friends and family. How does the author tell the story of their trip? What comes across in the description of the visit? What important pieces of information are presented?

4. When Wanda attempts suicide, how do the members of the commune react to her attempt?

5. Maryna and her troupe continue their tour across America to packed theatres and adoring audiences. What does Mr Warnock suggest in order to facilitate one night stands across the country? How does this change the tone of her trip across country? What is the name lettered in gold on the car?

6. How does Maryna compare her partners on the commune to actors?

7. 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?

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

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

10. 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?

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