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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 was commonly known about Dr. Orlovski that his wife overlooked?
(a) He spends too much money.
(b) He does not smell good.
(c) He has a permanent mistress.
(d) He is ugly.

2. What did Eva's father use as a means of transportation in Poland?
(a) A scooter.
(b) A bicycle.
(c) A car.
(d) A motorcycle.

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

4. Who's son was Marek?
(a) Pani Ruta's.
(b) Pani Grodzinska.
(c) Rubinstein's.
(d) Ciocia Bronia.

5. When little Eva worried about her parents fighting, what did her father tell her about their marriage that soothed Eva's worries?
(a) "I never should have married your mother."
(b) "Our marriage is as strong as the Chinese Wall."
(c) "I'm the man of the house."
(d) "Your mother just isn't bright."

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Eva's mother have an aversion to teaching her daughter?

2. What kind of uniform did Eva wear to the Cracow Music School?

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

4. 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?

5. What group of brothers kept eluding the gestapo so successfully during the war that the Germans thought Eva's father was one of them?

(see the answer key)

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