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

2. How did Krysia describe her friendship to Eva in a poem?
(a) Like a cold running river.
(b) Like a mountain.
(c) Like a coy pond.
(d) Like a weeping willow.

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

4. 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 sent her to her mother's.
(b) He carried her on his back to safety.
(c) He transported her on a motorcycle.
(d) He cared for her at home.

5. What ship did Eva and her family sail on to Canada?
(a) The Lusitania.
(b) The Titanic.
(c) The Batory.
(d) Oh Canada!

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of uniform did Eva wear to the Cracow Music School?

2. Who was Eva's mother's best friend?

3. What did Danuta Dombarska, the blond girl who lived in the next building in Poland want to be when she grew up?

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

5. What did Pani Orlovska tell Eva she should wash her face with to have a good complexion?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. How did Eva feel about national pride?

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

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

7. Why did Eva's parents go to synagogue and practice religion?

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

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

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

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