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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, The New World.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Eva's Japanese friend get angry about?
(a) Perfume salespeople who spray people with perfume.
(b) Car salesmen.
(c) Rude salespeople and rude clerks.
(d) Bad Japanese food.

2. Who were the favorite singers among Eva's parent's friends in Canada?
(a) Nat King Cole.
(b) Andrews Sisters and Dinah Shore.
(c) Perry Como.
(d) Bing Crosby.

3. Why couldn't Eva hear herself on the radio when she was interviewed at 14 years old?
(a) Her mother thought she was on T.V.
(b) She didn't know how to find the radio station.
(c) Her family didn't own a radio.
(d) She didn't understand that she was on the radio.

4. Where did Eva's father hide his foreign currency?
(a) In a wall closet.
(b) In a pipe in the ceiling.
(c) In the stove.
(d) Under a piece of the parquet floor.

5. What did Eva's mother tell the girls to do as they stepped on the soil in Vancouver?
(a) To gather dirt in their hands and keep it in a jar.
(b) To step on the right foot for luck.
(c) To get a picture.
(d) To jump onto their new home soil.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Eva's friends eat as they drank vodka around a table in a Lower East side apartment in New York?

2. Where did Eva teach literature in New England?

3. What did Penny's sister, Janet, try to do?

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

5. After Eva's parents worked their business out of their basement, where did they move the business?

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