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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) He cared for her at home.
(b) He sent her to her mother's.
(c) He transported her on a motorcycle.
(d) He carried her on his back to safety.

2. What did Pani Orlovska tell Eva she should wash her face with to have a good complexion?
(a) Laundry soap.
(b) Alcohol.
(c) Dove.
(d) Noxema.

3. What Polish word was the best compliment that a school exercise could receive and means "dash, inspiration and flying?"
(a) Polish.
(b) Polot.
(c) Panash.
(d) Peuchet.

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

5. Where did Eva and her family go on an autumn afternoon in 1958?
(a) To a car dealership.
(b) To a demonstration.
(c) To their favorite park.
(d) To the Bergs' house.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who's son was Marek?

3. What did Eva's father use as a means of transportation in Poland?

4. Where in New York did Eva meet somebody who knew her parents before the war?

5. What, according to the author, was the language of money and secrets?

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