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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. When Eva's friends began to reminisce about old T.V. shows and she was unfamiliar with them, what did she say
(a) I don't have a T.V.
(b) Before my time.
(c) My mother didn't let us watch that.
(d) I don't remember.

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

3. Who was Eva and Marek's first music teacher?
(a) Pani Ruta.
(b) Pani Grodzinska.
(c) Marek's mother.
(d) Eva's mother.

4. A Frenchman Eva knows once remarked, "We French lie to others. Americans lie to_____________________.
(a) Their friends.
(b) Their souls.
(c) Their wives.
(d) Themselves.

5. What did hearing English distorted feel like for Eva?
(a) Made her laugh.
(b) Made her sick to her stomach.
(c) Made her cry.
(d) Grated on her like chalk screeching on a blackboard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What movie star did Pani Dombarska look like when she took a drag on her cigarette?

2. What did Danuta Dombarska, the blond girl who lived in the next building in Poland want to be when she grew up?

3. What contemporary disease was Cracow being eaten away by when Eva visited?

4. What did Eva's father settle into for work in Canada?

5. As Eva's 2nd year at Harvard came to an end, what did she and her friends do?

(see the answer key)

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