View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Eva's mother take her every two weeks when she was a child that Eva described as being like Plato's cave or an Egyptian temple?
(a) The library.
(b) Warsaw.
(c) The opera.
(d) Paris.

2. 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 not be able to buy a car.
(c) That you would become too "American."
(d) That you'd be broke and live in The Bowery.

3. When Eva's mother became ill and had to go to a sanatorium, where did Eva go to stay?
(a) With her sister.
(b) With Marek and his family.
(c) To an orphanage.
(d) With her aunt.

4. What did Eva and Alinka discuss on their way home from school as they dawdled along Main Street?
(a) Boys.
(b) The problems with their mom and dad.
(c) Other Jewish families in Vancouver.
(d) Tupperware or a blouse or an embroidered collar -- things in the store windows.

5. Vancouver's Board of Commerce claimed that Vancouver was the most beautiful city in the world after what city?
(a) Phoenix.
(b) New York.
(c) Rio de Janeiro.
(d) Paris.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of food did the Wydra's have in their luggage from their trip?

2. After traveling to America, what did Eva declare was the capitol of the United States?

3. In her later life, who did Pani Orlovska write a book about?

4. What story of success did Eva's father hear from a man who spoke Yiddish about a Polish Jew who came to Canada?

5. Who did the Wydra's stay with when they arrived in Vancouver?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 340 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample