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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Pani Orlovska tell Eva she should wash her face with to have a good complexion?
(a) Laundry soap.
(b) Noxema.
(c) Dove.
(d) Alcohol.

2. Other than a pianist, what did Eva declare that she would like to be when she grew up?
(a) An actress.
(b) An engineer.
(c) A writer.
(d) A mother.

3. What ship did Eva and her family sail on to Canada?
(a) The Titanic.
(b) Oh Canada!
(c) The Batory.
(d) The Lusitania.

4. 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) Wydra brothers.
(b) Marek brothers.
(c) Sullivan brothers.
(d) Grodzinska brothers.

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

6. 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 aunt.
(c) With her sister.
(d) With Marek and his family.

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

8. What did Danuta Dombarska, the blond girl who lived in the next building in Poland want to be when she grew up?
(a) A saint.
(b) A park ranger.
(c) A politician.
(d) An actress.

9. 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) "Our marriage is as strong as the Chinese Wall."
(c) "Your mother just isn't bright."
(d) "I'm the man of the house."

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

11. In her later life, who did Pani Orlovska write a book about?
(a) Princess Grace.
(b) Helen Keller.
(c) Gorbchev.
(d) President Reagan.

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

13. Where did Eva and her family go on an autumn afternoon in 1958?
(a) To the Bergs' house.
(b) To their favorite park.
(c) To a car dealership.
(d) To a demonstration.

14. Who, at home, infused Eva and her sister with Christian teachings?
(a) Their father.
(b) Pani Ruta.
(c) The maids.
(d) Their mother.

15. In Eva's Poland apartment, what was the "second" room?
(a) Eva's sisters room.
(b) A bedroom for Eva's parents.
(c) A bedroom for Eva and her sister.
(d) The maid's room.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who asked Eva to dance on board the ship coming to Canada?

2. Who was Eva and Marek's first music teacher?

3. What, according to Eva's mother, was a necessary part of a lady's equipment?

4. 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?

5. Who's son was Marek?

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