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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Exile.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who owns the houses in the locations where Eva's family vacations when she is young in Poland?
(a) Gorale.
(b) Cherokee.
(c) A French gentleman.
(d) An Italian couple.

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

4. What kind of home did Eva's parents buy in Canada?
(a) A large brick house.
(b) An ocean cottage.
(c) A two story lap-board house.
(d) A small "stucco" house.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who in Canada supervised Eva's musical progress?

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

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

4. What did Eva's mother tell the girls to do as they stepped on the soil in Vancouver?

5. What game did most teenage parties devolve into that made Eva feel that she was among a strange tribe of adolescents?

(see the answer key)

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