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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In the winter, how did Eva's mother transport her to school?
(a) In a car.
(b) On a bicycle.
(c) On a toboggan.
(d) On a motorcycle.

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

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

6. When did Eva's family attend synagogue in Poland?
(a) Every Friday evening.
(b) Once a year on the High Holidays.
(c) Every Saturday.
(d) Four times a year on Holidays.

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

8. 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) Sullivan brothers.
(d) Marek brothers.

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

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

11. 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 opera.
(b) Warsaw.
(c) The library.
(d) Paris.

12. What color were the goldfish at the pond that Eva and her parents often visited in Poland?
(a) Green.
(b) Gold.
(c) Purple.
(d) Red.

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

14. Who died in 1956 on a visit to Moscow?
(a) President Eisenhower.
(b) President DeGaul.
(c) Poland's president, Bierut.
(d) President Reagan.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Other than a pianist, what did Eva declare that she would like to be when she grew up?

2. How did Krysia describe her friendship to Eva in a poem?

3. What was another word for "cuppings?"

4. Who's son was Marek?

5. Who was Eva's sister named after?

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