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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Eva's mother's best friend?
(a) Pani Clois.
(b) Pani Judith.
(c) Pani Ruta.
(d) Pani Ovantrain.

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

3. What year did prayers and religion classes begin in Polish schools?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1967.

4. Who asked Eva to dance on board the ship coming to Canada?
(a) Marek.
(b) Janek.
(c) The captain.
(d) Her father.

5. What happened to Alinka when her mother went to a sanatorium?
(a) She went to a private establishment run by a governess and gets treated badly.
(b) She lives with a teacher from school.
(c) She stays home with a maid.
(d) She lives with Pani Ruta.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What city did Eva and her parents get off the ship at when they arrived in Canada?

3. What, according to Eva's mother, was a necessary part of a lady's equipment?

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

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