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

2. Who, at home, infused Eva and her sister with Christian teachings?
(a) Their father.
(b) Their mother.
(c) Pani Ruta.
(d) The maids.

3. What ship did Eva and her family sail on to Canada?
(a) The Titanic.
(b) Oh Canada!
(c) The Lusitania.
(d) The Batory.

4. How did Krysia describe her friendship to Eva in a poem?
(a) Like a weeping willow.
(b) Like a coy pond.
(c) Like a cold running river.
(d) Like a mountain.

5. How did Eva's mother and father prefer her to dress when in Poland?
(a) In clothes that are too large.
(b) In colorful clothes.
(c) In fancy dresses.
(d) In "sports outfits" meaning shorts or long pants.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. What did Marek tell Eva's father before his family left Poland?

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

(see the answer key)

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