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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Eva's mother and father prefer her to dress when in Poland?
(a) In clothes that are too large.
(b) In colorful clothes.
(c) In "sports outfits" meaning shorts or long pants.
(d) In fancy dresses.

2. What, according to Eva's mother, was a necessary part of a lady's equipment?
(a) A maid.
(b) A husband.
(c) A vacuum.
(d) A car.

3. What did the brass band play as the ship left the harbor when Eva's family sailed for Canada?
(a) Goodbye, My Sweet.
(b) Mulberry's Dance.
(c) The Polish National Anthem.
(d) The Canadian National Anthem.

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

5. What Polish word was the best compliment that a school exercise could receive and means "dash, inspiration and flying?"
(a) Peuchet.
(b) Polish.
(c) Panash.
(d) Polot.

Short Answer Questions

1. In her later life, who did Pani Orlovska write a book about?

2. What year did prayers and religion classes begin in Polish schools?

3. What kind of facade did the synagogue in Poland have?

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. What did Eva's mother have an aversion to teaching her daughter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Eva's education like in Poland? Do you think she was getting two different educations? How did the teachers help the students understand what was important?

2. What changed in the friendship with Basia after she returned from the camp for young communists?

3. How was life on the ship to Canada like a family?

4. Compare Krysia's adult life with Eva's. What were the differences? What were the similarities? How did you think they viewed each others lives?

5. How did the author describe illness in Poland and illness in Canada? What were the differences between how children were treated when they had a cold or the flu in the two countries?

6. What was a sanatorium and why did Eva's mother have to go to a sanatorium for a while?

7. What, according to the author, was middle class in the Poland of her childhood?

8. For Eva's parents, what extra meaning did her birth have?

9. What emotion did Eva have when she heard the Polish National Anthem as her ship left for Canada?

10. What was the difference between the books that Eva choose from the library and books she had to read in school in Poland?

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