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

2. When Eva's mother became ill and had to go to a sanatorium, where did Eva go to stay?
(a) With her sister.
(b) With her aunt.
(c) With Marek and his family.
(d) To an orphanage.

3. What is unique about Orlovska's apartment that let Eva know that they had more money than her family?
(a) They had a maid's room.
(b) They had a 4th room.
(c) They had a separate kitchen.
(d) They had a "little salon."

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who's son was Marek?

2. What did Eva and her sister have sewn into the pockets of their skirts when they sailed for Canada?

3. Where was the first place the ship stopped when reaching Canada?

4. What color were the goldfish at the pond that Eva and her parents often visited in Poland?

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?

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