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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Krysia's older brother study in school?
(a) Music.
(b) Literature.
(c) Engineering.
(d) Law.

2. How old was Eva when her family sailed for Canada?
(a) 16 years old.
(b) 22 years old.
(c) 19 years old.
(d) 13 years old.

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

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

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

6. According to the woman who Eva met in New York who knew her parents before the war, how did Eva's father save Eva's mother after she had a miscarriage?
(a) He cared for her at home.
(b) He carried her on his back to safety.
(c) He sent her to her mother's.
(d) He transported her on a motorcycle.

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

8. Who owns the houses in the locations where Eva's family vacations when she is young in Poland?
(a) A French gentleman.
(b) An Italian couple.
(c) Gorale.
(d) Cherokee.

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

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

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

12. Where in New York did Eva meet somebody who knew her parents before the war?
(a) At a dinner party.
(b) A work.
(c) In Times Square.
(d) In the Union Square cafeteria.

13. 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) Paris.
(c) Warsaw.
(d) The library.

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

15. Which close relative of Eva's mother died during the war in the gas chambers?
(a) Her brother.
(b) Her sister.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her father.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Eva and her family go on an autumn afternoon in 1958?

3. What did Marek tell Eva's father before his family left Poland?

4. What did Eva play for her first public piano performance?

5. Who died in 1956 on a visit to Moscow?

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