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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Paradise.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Krysia's older brother study in school?
(a) Music.
(b) Literature.
(c) Law.
(d) Engineering.

2. Who owns the houses in the locations where Eva's family vacations when she is young in Poland?
(a) An Italian couple.
(b) A French gentleman.
(c) Cherokee.
(d) Gorale.

3. What, according to the author, was the language of money and secrets?
(a) Russian.
(b) Polish.
(c) Yiddish.
(d) English.

4. Other than a pianist, what did Eva declare that she would like to be when she grew up?
(a) A mother.
(b) An engineer.
(c) An actress.
(d) A writer.

5. Who did Eva go to Christian church with when she was young?
(a) Danuta.
(b) Her sister.
(c) Her maid.
(d) Her mother and father.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the woman who Eva met in New York who knew her parents before the war, how did Eva's father save Eva's mother after she had a miscarriage?

2. How old was Eva when her family sailed for Canada?

3. What did Pani Orlovska tell Eva she should wash her face with to have a good complexion?

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

5. In her later life, who did Pani Orlovska write a book about?

(see the answer key)

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