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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long did Mr. Ostropov's lessons run?
(a) 1 hour on the dot.
(b) 30 minutes.
(c) 1 hour and 1/2.
(d) Sometimes up to 3 hours.

2. What did Eva's mother mean when she said that Eva was becoming "English?"
(a) She was learning the language too quickly.
(b) She was becoming "cold."
(c) She didn't want to be seen with her mother.
(d) She wanted to go to school in America.

3. What did Eva's sister do almost the entire trip from Montreal to Vancouver?
(a) Giggled nervously.
(b) Ran around and played.
(c) Ate.
(d) Slept.

4. When Eva went out with her new friends in Canada, what was the boy wearing who teased Eva and called her a "foreign student?"
(a) Tennis shoes.
(b) Jeans and a blue jean jacket.
(c) A flowery Hawaiian shirt and a crew cut.
(d) A suite without a tie.

5. 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.

6. What began to win Eva prizes at school in Canada?
(a) Her piano playing.
(b) Her speeches.
(c) Her painting.
(d) Her poems.

7. What did hearing English distorted feel like for Eva?
(a) Made her sick to her stomach.
(b) Made her laugh.
(c) Made her cry.
(d) Grated on her like chalk screeching on a blackboard.

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

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

10. What game did most teenage parties devolve into that made Eva feel that she was among a strange tribe of adolescents?
(a) Spin the Bottle.
(b) Mother May I?
(c) Truth or Dare.
(d) Ring Around the Rosie.

11. What story of success did Eva's father hear from a man who spoke Yiddish about a Polish Jew who came to Canada?
(a) He went to work in a restaurant and worked his way up from dishwasher.
(b) He produced Polish pickles and made a fortune.
(c) He sold all his possessions and bought a lumber yard.
(d) He built houses and made a great living.

12. What did Eva confide to Mrs. Steiner?
(a) That her parents fought and argued.
(b) That she didn't like her school.
(c) That they had little money.
(d) That bullies beat her up.

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

14. What did Eva believe was the most important thing about speech?
(a) It was only good in Polish.
(b) It was a class signifier.
(c) It was not helpful in communication.
(d) It could be sloppy and still understood.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why couldn't Eva hear herself on the radio when she was interviewed at 14 years old?

2. When the Wydra's arrived in Canada, how far away were they from Vancouver in Eva's mind?

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

4. How many languages did Eva's mother speak?

5. What did Penny's sister, Janet, try to do?

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