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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was a familiar arch in Cracow which functioned as a gateway to the old city?
(a) Cracow Gate.
(b) Entrance Gate.
(c) Florianska Gate.
(d) Banieczki Gate.

2. What year did prayers and religion classes begin in Polish schools?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1935.

3. What did Krysia's mother call her because she recoiled from being hugged?
(a) A shark.
(b) A porcupine.
(c) A goat.
(d) A skunk.

4. Who did Janek, the boy Eva met on the ship to Canada, meet as he leaves the ship?
(a) His mother.
(b) His boss.
(c) His aunt.
(d) His father.

5. Who's son was Marek?
(a) Pani Grodzinska.
(b) Pani Ruta's.
(c) Ciocia Bronia.
(d) Rubinstein's.

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

7. What did Marek tell Eva's father before his family left Poland?
(a) He wanted to marry Eva and come to Canada.
(b) They must leave for America soon.
(c) He wanted to join the military in Isreal.
(d) That they had to move to Isreal because Eva was supposed to be his wife.

8. What did Eva's father use as a means of transportation in Poland?
(a) A car.
(b) A motorcycle.
(c) A bicycle.
(d) A scooter.

9. What book did Eva's father read that gave him the initial idea to emigrate to Canada?
(a) Canada Fragrant with Resin.
(b) Oh Canada!
(c) Canada, the Land of Immigration.
(d) How to Emigate to the Americas.

10. What street did Eva and her family live on in Poland?
(a) Kazimierza Wielkiego.
(b) Czajkowskis.
(c) Urzednicza.
(d) Krysia.

11. Who was Eva's mother's best friend?
(a) Pani Ruta.
(b) Pani Clois.
(c) Pani Judith.
(d) Pani Ovantrain.

12. What is unique about Orlovska's apartment that let Eva know that they had more money than her family?
(a) They had a 4th room.
(b) They had a "little salon."
(c) They had a maid's room.
(d) They had a separate kitchen.

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

14. 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) Paris.
(d) The opera.

15. Who was Eva's sister named after?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) A maid.
(c) A relative in Israel.
(d) Her mother's sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was another word for "cuppings?"

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 did the brass band play as the ship left the harbor when Eva's family sailed for Canada?

4. What Polish word was the best compliment that a school exercise could receive and means "dash, inspiration and flying?"

5. What did Eva and her sister have sewn into the pockets of their skirts when they sailed for Canada?

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