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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Eva and Alinka dressed in when they arrive in Vancouver?
(a) Their pajamas.
(b) Identical navy blue dresses with sailor collars.
(c) Jeans and white shirts.
(d) Flower dresses and matching socks.

2. When Eva saw a black man on her travels to Vancouver, who did she think he looked like?
(a) Harry Belafonte.
(b) Ray Charles.
(c) Wilt Chamberlin.
(d) Martin Luther King.

3. What could Eva NOT afford to do at Christmas when she was in college?
(a) To rent an apartment.
(b) Buy Christmas gifts for her Christian friends.
(c) Afford the trip home.
(d) To buy a car.

4. How many languages did Eva's mother speak?
(a) Five languages.
(b) One language.
(c) Eight languages.
(d) Nine languages.

5. Where was the photograph taken about a year after the Wydra's arrived in Canada?
(a) In front of a museum.
(b) By the ocean.
(c) In the mountains.
(d) In the back yard of their home.

6. What did Penny give Eva for her birthday that got her writing juices flowing?
(a) Stationary.
(b) A blank notebook.
(c) A typewriter.
(d) A diary.

7. What was Vancouver's shopping mecca?
(a) The outlet mall.
(b) Hudson Bay.
(c) Old Navy.
(d) Crest Bay.

8. What did Eva think that the sliced cheese and bologna smelled like?
(a) Plastic.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Chicken.
(d) Raw meat.

9. What did Eva and Alinka discuss on their way home from school as they dawdled along Main Street?
(a) Boys.
(b) Tupperware or a blouse or an embroidered collar -- things in the store windows.
(c) Other Jewish families in Vancouver.
(d) The problems with their mom and dad.

10. Who in Canada supervised Eva's musical progress?
(a) Mrs. Berg.
(b) Mrs. Rubenstein.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Mrs. Steiner.

11. What did Eva's father settle into for work in Canada?
(a) He collected and sold junk.
(b) He ran a diner.
(c) He ran an antique store for fine antiques.
(d) He worked for a construction company.

12. Which toothpaste did the Wydra's decide to use after seeing commercials?
(a) Acme.
(b) Colgate.
(c) Crest.
(d) Arm and Hammer.

13. What was Mr. Ostropov involved in politically back in Russia?
(a) The War of '68.
(b) The Russian Revolution of 1905.
(c) The Polish uprising.
(d) WWII.

14. Why couldn't Eva hear herself on the radio when she was interviewed at 14 years old?
(a) Her family didn't own a radio.
(b) She didn't understand that she was on the radio.
(c) She didn't know how to find the radio station.
(d) Her mother thought she was on T.V.

15. Where did Eva decide to attend college for her undergraduate degree?
(a) Chicago School for the Arts.
(b) Yale.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Rice University in Houston, TX.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the teacher in Vancouver decide to call Alina because she could not pronounce her name?

2. What did Eva's father say he wanted back after they lived in Canada for a while that he claimed he always had before?

3. Who were the favorite singers among Eva's parent's friends in Canada?

4. What kind of food did the Wydra's have in their luggage from their trip?

5. What did hearing English distorted feel like for Eva?

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