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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 mother have an aversion to teaching her daughter?
(a) Languages.
(b) Vacation planning.
(c) The piano.
(d) "Feminine" pursuits, such as cooking and sewing.

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

3. What was a familiar arch in Cracow which functioned as a gateway to the old city?
(a) Florianska Gate.
(b) Entrance Gate.
(c) Banieczki Gate.
(d) Cracow Gate.

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

5. Where in New York did Eva meet somebody who knew her parents before the war?
(a) A work.
(b) In Times Square.
(c) At a dinner party.
(d) In the Union Square cafeteria.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Krysia's older brother study in school?

2. Where did the ship that Eva and her family emigrate to Canada on sail from?

3. What did Eva's father use as a means of transportation in Poland?

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

5. What did Pani Orlovska tell Eva she should wash her face with to have a good complexion?

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