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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 body of water did the ship sail down after it reached the coast of Canada?
(a) Lake Ontario.
(b) Lake Huron.
(c) The Hudson River.
(d) The St. Lawrence Seaway.

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?
(a) Sullivan brothers.
(b) Wydra brothers.
(c) Marek brothers.
(d) Grodzinska brothers.

3. What, according to the author, was the language of money and secrets?
(a) Yiddish.
(b) English.
(c) Polish.
(d) Russian.

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

5. In her later life, who did Pani Orlovska write a book about?
(a) Gorbchev.
(b) President Reagan.
(c) Helen Keller.
(d) Princess Grace.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Eva when her family sailed for Canada?

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

3. Who owns the houses in the locations where Eva's family vacations when she is young in Poland?

4. Where did Eva and her family go on an autumn afternoon in 1958?

5. Who died in 1956 on a visit to Moscow?

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