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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Exile.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color were the goldfish at the pond that Eva and her parents often visited in Poland?
(a) Red.
(b) Purple.
(c) Gold.
(d) Green.

2. What did Eva play for her first public piano performance?
(a) Haydn.
(b) Czerny.
(c) Bach.
(d) Mozart.

3. Who were the favorite singers among Eva's parent's friends in Canada?
(a) Bing Crosby.
(b) Nat King Cole.
(c) Perry Como.
(d) Andrews Sisters and Dinah Shore.

4. Who did Eva relate to best in Canada and consider her "real friends?"
(a) People her own age.
(b) Her father's friends.
(c) People several generations older than her.
(d) Dogs, not people.

5. What story of success did Eva's father hear from a man who spoke Yiddish about a Polish Jew who came to Canada?
(a) He produced Polish pickles and made a fortune.
(b) He went to work in a restaurant and worked his way up from dishwasher.
(c) He sold all his possessions and bought a lumber yard.
(d) He built houses and made a great living.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Polish word was the best compliment that a school exercise could receive and means "dash, inspiration and flying?"

2. Where did Eva's mother take her every two weeks when she was a child that Eva described as being like Plato's cave or an Egyptian temple?

3. How did Mr. Ostropov show what he meant by "life?"

4. What did hearing English distorted feel like for Eva?

5. What happened to Alinka when her mother went to a sanatorium?

(see the answer key)

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