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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. What did Danuta Dombarska, the blond girl who lived in the next building in Poland want to be when she grew up?
(a) A saint.
(b) An actress.
(c) A park ranger.
(d) A politician.

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

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

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

5. What was a familiar arch in Cracow which functioned as a gateway to the old city?
(a) Cracow Gate.
(b) Florianska Gate.
(c) Entrance Gate.
(d) Banieczki Gate.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the ship that Eva and her family emigrate to Canada on sail from?

2. Who was Eva and Marek's first music teacher?

3. What did the brass band play as the ship left the harbor when Eva's family sailed for Canada?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did Eva feel about national pride?

4. 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?

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

10. What did Eva feel that she was being exiled from as she left Poland?

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