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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 did the brass band play as the ship left the harbor when Eva's family sailed for Canada?
(a) Goodbye, My Sweet.
(b) Mulberry's Dance.
(c) The Canadian National Anthem.
(d) The Polish National Anthem.

2. How did Krysia describe her friendship to Eva in a poem?
(a) Like a coy pond.
(b) Like a cold running river.
(c) Like a weeping willow.
(d) Like a mountain.

3. How many languages did Eva's mother speak?
(a) Eight languages.
(b) One language.
(c) Five languages.
(d) Nine languages.

4. Who died in 1956 on a visit to Moscow?
(a) President Eisenhower.
(b) President Reagan.
(c) President DeGaul.
(d) Poland's president, Bierut.

5. What, according to Eva and her parents, was the "big fear?"
(a) That you would not be able to buy a house.
(b) That you would become too "American."
(c) That you would not be able to buy a car.
(d) That you'd be broke and live in The Bowery.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Eva's teacher, Mr. Jones ask her about that only she could answer?

3. What did Eva and Alinka discuss on their way home from school as they dawdled along Main Street?

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

5. What, according to the author, was the language of money and secrets?

(see the answer key)

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