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

3. What did Eva's mother have an aversion to teaching her daughter?
(a) "Feminine" pursuits, such as cooking and sewing.
(b) The piano.
(c) Vacation planning.
(d) Languages.

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

5. Who's son was Marek?
(a) Pani Grodzinska.
(b) Pani Ruta's.
(c) Rubinstein's.
(d) Ciocia Bronia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Eva's father use as a means of transportation in Poland?

2. What, according to Eva's mother, was a necessary part of a lady's equipment?

3. What did Krysia's mother call her because she recoiled from being hugged?

4. What city did Eva and her parents get off the ship at when they arrived in Canada?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Eva consider the landing of the Batory the end of the narrative of her childhood?

2. How did Eva's mother view the idea of being lazy for women?

3. What was an apparatchik in Poland and who, according to Eva, was one? What did they do? What was their function in the political landscape?

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

5. How did Eva gather memories before the family emigrated to Canada?

6. How did Pani Ruta live during the war and why was her family untouched by what was happening to the Jews?

7. What, according to Eva, threw an "odd light" on Pani Orlovska?

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

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

10. Why was it important for Eva's mother to have a maid? What role did this maid play in her idea of what a homemaker was?

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