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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Eva play for her first public piano performance?
(a) Mozart.
(b) Haydn.
(c) Bach.
(d) Czerny.

3. Who asked Eva to dance on board the ship coming to Canada?
(a) Janek.
(b) Marek.
(c) Her father.
(d) The captain.

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

5. What happened to Alinka when her mother went to a sanatorium?
(a) She lives with a teacher from school.
(b) She lives with Pani Ruta.
(c) She stays home with a maid.
(d) She went to a private establishment run by a governess and gets treated badly.

6. Where did Eva's family take vacations when she was young in Poland?
(a) Bialy Dunajec.
(b) Baltic Sea.
(c) Paris.
(d) Israel.

7. When little Eva worried about her parents fighting, what did her father tell her about their marriage that soothed Eva's worries?
(a) "I never should have married your mother."
(b) "Your mother just isn't bright."
(c) "I'm the man of the house."
(d) "Our marriage is as strong as the Chinese Wall."

8. Who refused to leave the ship and meet her new husband when the ship reached Canada?
(a) Pani Ruta.
(b) Alenka.
(c) Irena.
(d) Eva.

9. What group of brothers kept eluding the gestapo so successfully during the war that the Germans thought Eva's father was one of them?
(a) Grodzinska brothers.
(b) Wydra brothers.
(c) Marek brothers.
(d) Sullivan brothers.

10. Where was the first place the ship stopped when reaching Canada?
(a) Vancouver.
(b) Montreal.
(c) New York.
(d) Halifax.

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

12. Who did Eva go to Christian church with when she was young?
(a) Her sister.
(b) Danuta.
(c) Her maid.
(d) Her mother and father.

13. What was commonly known about Dr. Orlovski that his wife overlooked?
(a) He does not smell good.
(b) He spends too much money.
(c) He has a permanent mistress.
(d) He is ugly.

14. What, according to the author, was the language of money and secrets?
(a) Polish.
(b) Yiddish.
(c) English.
(d) Russian.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which close relative of Eva's mother died during the war in the gas chambers?

2. What is unique about Orlovska's apartment that let Eva know that they had more money than her family?

3. What was another word for "cuppings?"

4. What color were the goldfish at the pond that Eva and her parents often visited in Poland?

5. How old was Eva when her family sailed for Canada?

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