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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, according to Eva's mother, was a necessary part of a lady's equipment?
(a) A vacuum.
(b) A husband.
(c) A car.
(d) A maid.

2. What book did Eva's father read that gave him the initial idea to emigrate to Canada?
(a) How to Emigate to the Americas.
(b) Canada, the Land of Immigration.
(c) Oh Canada!
(d) Canada Fragrant with Resin.

3. Who died in 1956 on a visit to Moscow?
(a) President DeGaul.
(b) President Eisenhower.
(c) Poland's president, Bierut.
(d) President Reagan.

4. Where in New York did Eva meet somebody who knew her parents before the war?
(a) In Times Square.
(b) A work.
(c) In the Union Square cafeteria.
(d) At a dinner party.

5. 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?
(a) The library.
(b) The opera.
(c) Warsaw.
(d) Paris.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which close relative of Eva's mother died during the war in the gas chambers?

2. Who did Janek, the boy Eva met on the ship to Canada, meet as he leaves the ship?

3. How did Eva's mother and father prefer her to dress when in Poland?

4. What did Danuta Dombarska, the blond girl who lived in the next building in Poland want to be when she grew up?

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

(see the answer key)

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