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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 Krysia's mother call her because she recoiled from being hugged?
(a) A shark.
(b) A skunk.
(c) A goat.
(d) A porcupine.

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

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

4. When did Eva's family attend synagogue in Poland?
(a) Every Friday evening.
(b) Four times a year on Holidays.
(c) Once a year on the High Holidays.
(d) Every Saturday.

5. Where did Eva's family take vacations when she was young in Poland?
(a) Paris.
(b) Bialy Dunajec.
(c) Baltic Sea.
(d) Israel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Alinka when her mother went to a sanatorium?

2. What did Eva's mother have an aversion to teaching her daughter?

3. When little Eva worried about her parents fighting, what did her father tell her about their marriage that soothed Eva's worries?

4. What was another word for "cuppings?"

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

(see the answer key)

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